My agency in promoting the passage of the National Banking Act was the greatest mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly which affects every interest in the country

True Democracy makes no enquiry about the color of the skin, or the place of nativity. Wherever it sees a man, it recognizes a being endowed by his Creator with original inalienable rights

The way to resumption is to resume.

The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.

No nation can be strong except in the strength of God, or safe except in His defense. The trust of our people in God should be declared on our national coins.

States Rights died at Appomattox.

The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union composed of indestructible States.

The legal tender quality [of money] is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty.

How wrong it is for those who love, not to express their love.

All men are born equally free.

No more slave States and no more slave territory.

Ignorance is darkness. Knowledge is light. Wisdom is awaken spirit

Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.

If you say you don't have time to do it once a day, then you're the one who probably needs it twice a day.

A library is infinity under a roof.

I have T.V. on all the time when I'm writing. I have music on. I'm engaged with the world.

Mickey is one of the prime examples: Mickey has never been suspected of being an American export. It was deja vu. They gave him a local name and he's been accepted everywhere he goes.

With whom do you argue? With a woman, of course. Not with a friend, because he accepted all your defects the moment he found you. Besides, woman is mother-have we forgotten?

Historically, filmmakers always fall in love with every frame, but now that even neophytes are given final cut, this love affair carries with it serious economic implications.

Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery.

Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?