There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by . . . swaying their passions. The influence of the one perished; that of the other continues to this day.

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

Let him who elevates himself above humanity . . . say, if he pleases, "I will never compromise"; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromise.

An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.

The time will come when winter will ask what you were doing all summer.

It is better to fall short of a high mark than to reach a low one.

Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.

I cannot believe that the killing of 2,000 Englishmen at New Orleans qualifies a person for the various difficult and complicated duties of the Presidency.

It is in the perfect union of two hearts that complete and total marriage consists.

Simply put, That Which Is - what most of us call God - is not a physical person nor a this or that spirit etc. Is the Quintessence of All That Is.

I certainly supported a woman's right to choose, but to my mind the time to choose was before, not after the fact.

Just because a marriage ended didn't mean that it hadn't been happy at times.

You could not stop the winds and you could not stop Time. It went on and on, -and on.

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.

His kiss held his heart. It broke hers.

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!