The thought of going abroad makes my heart leap.

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

By the Law of Slavery, man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be a mere chattel.

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.

If a man has done evil in his life, he must not be complimented in marble.

Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final.

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.

War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable.

Give me the centralism of liberty; give me the imperialism of equal rights.

The age of Chivalry is gone. An age of Humanity has come.

No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

Believing in what you don't know is as true as believing in what you know as long as your life is just an illusion.

She was wearing a beautiful dress with straps designed to be eaten off her shoulders.

I disagreed with Carnegie's ideas on how best to distribute his wealth. I spent mine!

Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.

I find aspects of the industry tedious and hard to manage.

You never know when something's going to hit you in a particular way and just knock you loose.

Only hearts... They're in the inside of the inside of me.

I happen to find motherhood a very natural state, but I know a lot of other people don't.

There is iconoclasm in the excessively intellectual, and they delight in destroying their dearest moral or sentimental idols, the better to prove their strength.

As Gandhi famously responded when asked about "Western civilization," "I wish they had one," the same applies to "international community": "I wish there was one."