If you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better.
I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the country, and the prospect before us, that I can bring you no good tidings.
The firing on that fort will inaugurate a civil war greater than any the world has yet seen…you will lose us every friend at the North. You will wantonly strike a hornet's nest which extends from mountains to ocean. Legions now quiet will swarm out and sting us to death. It is unnecessary. It puts us in the wrong. It is fatal.
Liberty, in its last analysis, is but the sweat of the poor and the blood of the brave.
Mr. President at this time it is suicide, murder, and will lose us every friend at the North. You will wantonly strike a hornet's nest which extends from mountain to ocean, and legions now quiet will swarm out and sting us to death.
The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.
They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors to none.
Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman.
My perception of making a movie before I started making movies was that it would be like “Spy Kids. ”
But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.
We aged a hundred years, and this happened in a single hour: the short summer had already died, the body of the ploughed plains smoked.