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.

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The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.

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.

The quality of our lives is determined by the focus of our attention.

Men of genius are the worst possible models for men of talent.

ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked.

Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference.

I once had a man break up with me. He said I was using him because right after making love I would weigh myself.

I always wanted to play against the best.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

The true work of art continues to unfold and create within the personality of the spectator. It is a continuous coming into being.

It feels great to have my hard work pay off, especially when the fans made it hard for me.