“Yeah, I like being on my own. I do. I tend to be a loner, so I'm okay. I'm not okay when I have to be around everyone all the time.” My OwnOkayYeahLonerNot Okay Author:Keri Russell
“The only problem with seeing people you know is that they know you.” PeopleKnowsProblemSeeingIntrovertIntroversion Book:The Burn Journals Source: The Burn Journals
“Isn't it refreshing to know that what comes perfectly natural for you is your greatest strength? Your power is in your nature. You may not think it's a big deal that you can spend hours immersed in something that interests you-alone-but the extrovert next door has no idea how you do it.” ThinkingKnowsMayIdeasBigsNextInterestHoursNaturalDealsDoorsNo IdeaIntrovertBig DealRefreshingIntroversionExtrovertsPerfectly Natural Author:Laurie Helgoe
“The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.” KnowsMenLifeHeartDoeEnjoyWorkIdleIdlenessFollow Your HeartLazy Man Author:Albert Einstein
“I want Cuba . . . I want Tamaulipas, Potosi, and one or two other Mexican States; and I want them all for the same reason for the planting and spreading of slavery.” WantTwoWarStatesReasonSlaveryCivil WarMexicanCubaConfederate Author:Albert G. Brown
“There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery.” WarKnownCivilizationInstitutionsFoundationSlaveryCivil WarRespectable Author:Robert M. T. Hunter
“African slavery is the corner-stone of the industrial, social, and political fabric of the South; and whatever wars against it, wars against her very existence. Strike down the institution of African slavery and you reduce the South to depopulation and barbarism.” WarPoliticalSocialExistenceStonesInstitutionsSlaverySouthCornersStrikesCivil WarFabricBarbarismDepopulation Author:Laurence M. Keitt
“I said that one of the causes, and the one that has created more excitement and dissatisfaction than any other, is, that the Government will not hereafter, and when it is necessary, interpose to protect slaves as property in the Territories; and I asked the Senator if he would abandon his squatter-sovereignty notions and agree to protect slaves as all other property?” IfsSaidWarGovernmentCausesProtectAgreePropertySlaveNotionExcitementCivil WarAbandonTerritorySenatorsSovereigntyHereafterDissatisfactionSquatters Author:Louis Wigfall
“The systematic, wanton, and long continued agitation of the slavery question, with the actual and threatened aggressions of the Northern States and a portion of their people, upon the well-defined constitutional rights of the Southern citizens; the rapid growth and increase, in all the elements of power, of a purely sectional party.” PeopleWellsLongWarStatesGrowthPartyRightsCitizensElementsIncreaseSlaveryDefinedCivil WarSouthernPortionsAggressionThreatenedRapidsSystematicAgitationWantonConstitutional RightsRapid Growth Author:Isham G. Harris
“Mr. President, the cause of this great discontent in the country, the cause of the evils which we now suffer and which we now fear, originates chiefly from questions growing out of the respective rights of the different States and the unfortunate subject of slavery.” DifferentWarCountryStatesSufferingEvilCausesPresidentGrowingRightsSubjectsSlaveryCivil WarUnfortunateDiscontent Author:John J. Crittenden
