It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state.

The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever-growing influence of the Bible.

The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can.

We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.

Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed to extend to the Pacific Ocean.

Revolutions never go backward.

No man will ever be President of the United States who spells 'negro' with two gs.

There is a higher law than the Constitution.

I know and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backwards.

It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces.

But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.

When you're at dinner with somebody and they are on their phone. I think there's that lost art of conversation and so I just always try to keep my phone far away from me when I'm with people.

To be honest with you, I normally beat guys with my C game and I don't have to pull my A or B game out.

I try to add as much as I can before a director says, 'Harold shut up!'

I love the practicality of a good car. You know what I mean? And when I say 'practicality,' I mean the complete practicality of a Ferrari 458, a wonderfully fantastic every day car.

I have a child and I'm a parent first of all.

On the basis of both values and interests, the natural relationship between Islam and the United States is one of friendship.

Nothing so denies a person liberty as the total absence of money.

The Ordinary Life: the misery seems planned, the happiness accidental.

It's not about the shoes, it's what you do in them.

We each have the kind of children we deserve.