"Our entire country would be better off if the South had won the Civil War."

"It is not to be inferred that it would be anything less than courting national disaster to leave our country barren of defense. Human nature is a very constant quality. While there is justification fo…"

"Blessedness, he affirmed, comes not from outward conditions but from inward states. It consists not in positions, but in dispositions."

"Cages. Consider a birdcage. If you look very closely at just one wire in the cage, you cannot see the other wires. If your conception of what is before you is determined by this myopic focus, you coul…"

"Look, when I did the Free Trade Agreement, I didn't know how it was going to turn out. I thought it was the right thing to do. I believed it was the way of the future. If you looked at it in the new m…"