I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; /neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.

Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world.

Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a love-born of God’s care for every need.

It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!

Many Americans wonder if we're willing to use force to defend the country even under the most compelling of circumstances, ... The majority of Democrats would answer that question that, yes, there is a right place and a right time. We don't get to have that discussion because many people don't think we have the backbone.