States Rights died at Appomattox.

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The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.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

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.

Novelist by day

Simplicities are enormously complex. Consider the sentence "I love you".

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It's a challenge to the powers that be. It's saying there is a real literature in this country and we will keep publishing it.

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty" - Lao-tsu One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.

One of the primary necessities of the world for the maintenance of peace is the elimination of the frictions which arise from competitive armament.

Being infected, being a vampire, it’ s always you. Maybe it’ s more you than ever before. It’ s you as you always were, deep down inside.

...Registering guns is like sending a list of your household valuables to a burglars' guild. Why invite - guarantee - a visit.?

I've been the type of person [and] the type of athlete, I don't like to be given anything. I like to earn.

Everybody comes to the journalist with an agenda.