All we ask is to be let alone.

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

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.

All we ask is to be let alone.

Never be haughty to the humble or humble to the haughty.

A people morally and intellectually equal to self-government must also be equal in self-defence.

Every one must understand that, whatever be the evil of slavery, it is not increased by its diffusion. Every one familiar with it knows that it is in proportion to its sparseness that it becomes less objectionable. Wherever there is an immediate connexion between the master and slave, whatever there is of harshness in the system is diminished.

God forbid that the day should ever come when to be true to my constituents is to be hostile to the Union.

It is not differences of opinion; it is geographical lines, rivers, and mountains which divide State from State, and make different nations of mankind.

It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United States.

Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctioned by its justice and sustained by a virtuous people.

Slavery existed before the formation of this Union. It derived from the Constitution that recognition which it would not have enjoyed without the confederation. If the States had not united together, there would have been no obligation on adjoining States to regard any species of property unknown to themselves.

The right solemnly proclaimed at the birth of the States, and which has been affirmed and reaffirmed in the bills of rights of the States subsequently admitted into the Union of 1789, undeniably recognizes in the people the power to resume the authority delegated for the purposes of Government.

To increase the power, develop the resources and promote the happiness of a Confederacy, it is requisite there should be so much of homogeneity that the welfare of every portion would be the aim of the whole.

To one who loves his country in all its parts, it is natural to rejoice in whatever contributes to the prosperity and honor and marks the stability and progress of any portion of its people.

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

Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar.

I rise today to discuss the National Intelligence Reform bill. I commend my colleagues in both Houses for their hard work in coming to an agreement. As with any conference, each voice is heard, but none can dominate and compromise must be achieved.

Many are called but few are chosen

As I see it, my focus has never been on masculine power rampant and triumphant but rather on the antithesis: masculine power impaired.

Uncles and aunts and cousins are all very well and fathers and mothers are not to be despised but a grandmother at holiday time is worth them all.

Vote Smart has sent out thirty thousand questionnaires to every candidate running for office.

I like to say, 'I hit every type of music in a show, and I play the people, not the instruments.'

If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?

I work a lot with my ski sponsor, Head, to develop new technologies.

Fashion is my passion, and I respect the creativity that you find in its different levels.

I really don't feel like I'm in any kind of contest. Except, maybe, with myself. Just want to learn and create and grow. Get better all the time with these filmmaking tools. I don't expect perfection from myself. Just progress.

I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.

All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity.

I grew up in Michigan, so I played hockey, football and basketball. I played a little bit of lacrosse, too. My brother played more lacrosse and ran track.

I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.

When I was 16, I spent a year pushing trollies around a car park, and that wasn't fun. I didn't love working in a supermarket; it wasn't for me. It is for some people, and that's totally cool.

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

Sufferers of depression have 'episodes' the same way those who suffer from multiple sclerosis do. It comes, wipes the floor with you, and then somehow returns you to the world. But it comes back.

I did a crazy version of 'Romeo and Juliet' once, and I played Romeo.

No, I come for a hippy lifestyle, it's very open; my parents are both hippies.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

Charisma is the ability to influence without logic.

People always ask 'Why is Bubba different?' They're just trying to figure it out.

When you are through with the blues youve got nothing to rest on.

It's a little hard not to be an elitist when you're making millions of dollars a year.