Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens.

The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny.

Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.

Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies.

Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.

Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections.

Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous.

It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men.

The people are forbidden to give aid and comfort to rebels. What of a government that has the power to cut off from aid and comfort all the rebels of the South and fails to exercise it?

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.

The worship of words is more pernicious than the worship of images. Grammatolatry is the worst species of idolatry.

Life begins where needs end.

I'll walk the plank and I'll jump with a smile, cause if I'm gonna go down I'm gonna do it with style.

No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.

I'm not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can capture the very soul of significant social and cultural problems.

I honestly have never been a guy to panic or freak out in the middle of a crisis. Growing up in the south side of Chicago will make you pretty resilient.

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff.

I thought Eddie Redmayne portrayed me very well... At times I thought he was me.

Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language.