The door of conciliation and compromise is finally closed by our adversaries, and it remains only to us to meet the conflict with the dignity and firmness of men worthy of freedom.

They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors to none.

Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.

Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States - no advantage was ever sought or obtained by them for their section of the Republic.

The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.

They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary - everywhere they declare that slavery shall not go into the Territories.

Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was conferred.

Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government.

Liberty, in its last analysis, is but the sweat of the poor and the blood of the brave.

The day the army of Virginia allows a negro regiment to enter their lines as soldiers they will be degraded, ruined, and disgraced.

I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the country, and the prospect before us, that I can bring you no good tidings.

You are the ultimate truth of your life. Everything that happens to you depends on you and your thoughts.

Characters begin as your children and become your teachers.

Social media became a show off world, for people who really have nothing to show for it .Directionless individuals, influencing people who cant think for themselves... ''Tare Munzara

The sole purpose of being rich is to give away money.

Sleep is for those people who are broke. I don't sleep. I've got an opportunity to make a dream become a reality.

To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind.

I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.

One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with.

A coach yells at the kid he thinks can improve but the coach will not yell at the kid who he/she knows won't.