Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.
So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the interest of the South. So fully am I satisfied of this that I would have cheerfully lost all that I have lost by the war, and have suffered all that I have suffered to have this object attained.
Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice them all to the Union; but how can I draw my sword upon Virginia, my native State?
There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.
A land without memories is a people without liberty.
When the new light which we beg for shines in upon us, there be [those] who envy and oppose, if it come not first in at their casements.
It seems to me Montana is a great splash of grandeur. The scale is huge but not overpowering. The land is rich with grass and color, and the mountains are the kind I would create if mountains were ever put on my agenda.
Supermarkets depict abundance; boutiques exclusiveness; roadside stands authenticity.
We realized we don't have an invention, that's why we gave it away.