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

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.

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.

Time’s a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?” Scotty shook his head. “The goon won.

Democracy is the process to elect the Government of the Upper class or caste people, by the poor people and for the corporate people - Idiotneil

What's the name of that famous museum in Paris? The Louvre? I went through that place in 20 minutes.

It's important to me that everyone is treated with respect.

To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.

Each of us needs an adequate biography: How do I put together into a coherent image the pieces of my life? How do I find the basic plot of my story?

We learn to face the reality and the pain of our loss, to say good-bye to the dead loved one, to restore ourselves, and to reinvest in life once again.

Denial of one appetite sharpens the others.

Enlightenment is understanding that there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, and nobody you have to be except exactly who you're being right now.

Apologies are seldom of any use.