I think every family should have a dog; it is like having a perpetual baby; it is the plaything and crony of the whole house. It keeps them all young.

Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!

I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.

Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.

These men are all talk; What is needed is action - action!

I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument is resorted to other than moral persuasion.

Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!

The United States is a place where the men govern, but the women rule.

I cannot remember a night so dark as to have hindered the coming day.

The intent and not the deed Is in our power; and, therefore, who dares greatly Does greatly.

Holiness does not consist in mystic speculations, enthusiastic fervours, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God wills.

The way into the hall of success always passes through the chamber of decision. Decide to be a success

I have never counted on someone to take care of my emotions for me.

Clearly it is God's will to place me in such a predicament, " declared Philias loudly to a procession of stunned passers-by, "So God can jolly well point me towards salvation.

Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights government should never be permitted to take those away.

Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from over work, but many who died from doubt.

Trials, obstacles, difficulties and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith.

~My favorite thing about my son is that he comes home from school and the clothes go flying! Like, clothes off, right down to the undies.~

I find intelligence sexy. I find a sense of humor sexy. I find sensitivity sexy.

If they're going to pay me like [Mike] Gallego, I'm going to play like Gallego.

Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.