We protest solemnly in the face of mankind, that we desire peace at any sacrifice, save that of honor.

African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.

The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form.

Truthfulness is a cornerstone in character, and if it be not firmly laid in youth, there will ever after be a weak spot in the foundation.

Truth crushed to earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.

The time for compromise has now passed, and the South is determined to maintain her position, and make all who oppose her smell Southern powder and feel Southern steel.

Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established.

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.

All we ask is to be let alone.

Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southerner apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance.

A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever.

In modern life, we tend to forget family values because of the hectic schedule.

The Americans are stuck in Iraq and have no way out. They are like a wolf whose tail has been caught in a trap.

I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism.

If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.

This is to think, that men are so foolish, that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by pole-cats, or foxes; but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.

Meditation is the golden key to all the mysteries of life.

The most treasured asset in investment management is a steady hand at the tiller.

To cease to love -- that is defeat.

Scotland by no means escaped the fate ordained for every country which is connected, but not incorporated, with another country of greater resources.

Over the course of the year 1990, the then Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher had many conversations with President [Mikhail] Gorbachev and other Soviet officials.