It would be contrary to the spirit of the American Government to use force to subjugate the South.

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.

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.

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.

I grew up a dreamer, lonely, one foot on the earth, the other on the moon.

A conviction borne of God amply possesses the potency and power to brazenly reach beyond the possible in order to topple the impossible.

With writing, i can do everything. Make nothing to be something, and then make something to big thing. So, i know, that nothing and big thing is so true as same thing

You find your greatest joy the moment when you discover your purpose in life.

I read therefore I write.

We live in a world bathed in 5, 000 times more energy than we consume as a species in the year, in the form of solar energy. It's just not in usable form yet.

The knife flaying the elephant does not have to be large, only sharp!

I don't think I've made a mistake. I think I have behaved in ways that I am proud of; I think I've behaved in ways I'm not.

God give you pardon from gratitude and other mild forms of servitude.

It is only with total humility, and in absolute stillness of mind that we can know what indeed we are.