If there must always be a laboring population distinct from proprietors and employers, we regard the slave system as decidedly preferable to the system at wages.

Wages is a cunning device of the devil, for the benefit of tender consciences, who would retain all the advantages of the slave system, without the expense, trouble, and odium of being slave-holders.

The immortality of the soul is assented to rather than believed, believed rather than lived.

I love the Irish for their attachment to the faith and for many amiable and noble qualities, but they are deficient in good sense, sound judgement, and manly character.

If I could start with anybody, I would initially draft Tom Brady. Then I would go get Ray Lewis, and then maybe an offensive lineman, or somebody like Adrian Peterson.

There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain.

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.

Sooner or later a black car came for everyone.

He feels all our sorrows, needs, and burdens as his own. That is why it is said that the sufferings of believers are called the sufferings of Christ.

Nonviolence succeeds only when we have a real living faith in God.

Without God man has no reference point to define himself.

The way you begin each day defines how you'll live each day.

Since when are Egyptians not white? All I know are.

I'm pro-choice, pro-affirmative action, pro-environment and pro-labor. I was either going to be the loneliest Republican in America or I was going to be a happy Democrat.