The door of conciliation and compromise is finally closed by our adversaries, and it remains only to us to meet the conflict with the dignity and firmness of men worthy of freedom.

We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands.

They demanded a monopoly of the coasting trade, in order to get higher freights than they could get in open competition with the carriers of the world.

Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.

Success can breed all kinds of other behavior and cause companies to behave a certain way that isn't necessarily the ingredients for achieving more success. For instance, with success comes arrogance, and that's typically the death of success.

I think being dead isn't any problem. It's the process of dying which is quite off-putting.

Should those whose actions lead to the death or injury of a child get a free pass?

You look up at drama, down at comedy. A singer, looking up is okay. A comic, it's death.