These men are all talk; What is needed is action - action!

Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!

I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.

Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.

I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument is resorted to other than moral persuasion.

Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!

The United States is a place where the men govern, but the women rule.

I cannot remember a night so dark as to have hindered the coming day.

The intent and not the deed Is in our power; and, therefore, who dares greatly Does greatly.

Holiness does not consist in mystic speculations, enthusiastic fervours, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God wills.

The same eye cannot both look up to heaven and down to earth.

Awaken each day with the expectation that something wonderful is about to happen.

The thought is just as strong as the consequence.

Your home is where your family is... Where someone waits for you and thinks about you.

Joie, " he said with his lips hovering over mine. "What?" I felt my heart flutter. "Shut up, " he muttered and then he kissed me.

For some offenses, there is only retribution." Nora Hawks, "One Woman's Vengeance.

It's not that comedy has changed in terms of what's funny. For me, it's changed in that sometimes I don't feel my finger is on the pulse.

When I was 9 years old, I wanted to be the baritone sax player in the Little Richard band.

In all your getting, get understanding.

The things men come to eat when they are alone are, I suppose, not much stranger than the men themselves.... A writer years ago told me of living for five months on hen mash.

USC is the National Champion like Al Gore is the President of the United States.