Will you stand by it now, or will you let the Shylocks come and have their way? It is for you to determine.

Now, mark it. This may be strong language, but heed it. The people mean it, and, my friends of the Eastern Democracy, we bid farewell when you do that thing.

What is the effect of unlimited coinage of silver in this country? and I invite your attention to this particularly, because it is a question of vital importance.

The aristocracy of Western Europe has absolutely tabooed silver in those countries and driven it away from there. Here it finds its only resting place.

Speaking as a Democrat, all my life battling for what I conceived to be Democracy, and what I conceived to be right, I am yet an American above Democracy.

Many now born, by the time they are voters will compose part of a nation with a genius nowhere equaled, and with a vast territory upon which those energies and that genius can operate.

There was no correcting past mistakes, especially since he could see no real 'mistakes' he had made. He had done the best he could, and that had proven insufficient.

I'm horrified of lobsters. And shrimp and lobsters are the cockroaches of the ocean.

And here's Zivojinovic, six foot six inches tall and fourteen pounds ten ounces.

The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.'

By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the men who have ruined Ireland and India, and are now poisoning and enslaving the Chinese people.

When I was growing up, there were a lot more arts in the public schools. Politically, America has screwed up on that.

He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was more than the sum of his artistic parts.

Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.

I believe that if we are going to write about life and death, we should not do it from the cheap seats.

Your mindset matters. If you don't have the mindset of a wealthy person ("How can I afford it?") versus a poor person ("I can't afford it."), you will never achieve wealth.