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

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

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The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.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

States Rights died at Appomattox.

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.

Challenge who you can be, don't let fate control your future.

Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.

I started in theater and I wanted to write plays, but I never really found an original voice as a playwright.

I think I can say without fear of contradiction that we could generate sorties at an extremely high level and bring very, very effective air power to bear in support of our troops.

Your best athletes might give basketball a try just when they think, geez, this might be something that pays off for me in the end.

I love Tinkerbell because she's feisty and about it. She's got swag! She's going to do what she wants to do. I even have a Tinkerbell tattoo, and she is wearing Adidas flip-flops!

My concerts are about me being very private in public, but I'm very protective.

If you can see life as a learning experience, you can turn any negative into a positive.

Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.

I just think, who wants new soul? I want my soul to be the same as Otis Redding, I don't wanna have a new one.