"I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union."

"A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others."

"Everybody likes a compliment."

"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough."

"Important principles may, and must, be inflexible."

"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."

"The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read."

"I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion."

"The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them."

"Shaq did a great job tonight. We have to make sure he's not in foul trouble and constantly look to go to him."

"You've got to have all your weapons against that team."

"(Walsh) is not going to become a little whip in this thing. He held out and got fair value."

"The voters will put in the best players, and the coaches will take care of the rest."

"We got a break tonight. Bobby Simmons is a great player - Mo Williams - those two guys would have created a lot of problems for us. The thing about a speed team, if you can see them walking up and down the court, you've done something."

"As soon as we begin to struggle offensively or get a little bit discouraged, two or three things happen to us and we stop playing defense."

"We're supposed to be one of the top teams in the league. We've assembled some of the top talent in the league. This team needs to understand that when we come to another team's arena, that it is a big event. We came in here and the Hornets took it from us."

"I think they've turned the corner. They've acquired a tremendous amount of talent."

"I think they've turned the corner. They've accumulated a tremendous amount of talent. Ever since (Thomas) has come here, the talent level has gone through the roof. That's all I know."

"It's an ongoing battle. It's becoming more and more and more difficult to do it. There's so much talent, so much ball-handling ability. There's so many things that officials allow perimeter players to get away with that it's difficult to guard the ball."

"I can make more generals, but horses cost money."

"If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance."

"Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it."

"Knavery and flattery are blood relations."

"Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors."

"No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens."

"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

"No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent."

"My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth."

"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."

"I'm really tired of talking about it. I hate to do it, but there's a huge double standard here. He turns in, it's a foul on him. And they're pushing and shoving on him all the time."

"This is to see whether the two years, all the drill work and all the hard work have manifested itself into something positive for him. It should be something he should be eager to do."

"I'm not happy with it."

"We feel like with this trade we traded a lot, but we got back three quality players. Antoine Walker is one of the very best, multi-faceted, versatile players in this game."

"We traded a lot, but we got back three quality players. Antoine Walker is one of the very best multi-faceted, versatile players in this game. ... He is able to handle the ball, pass it, make plays, shoot 3's and rebound the ball. There isn't anyone in this league better at doing that."

"We feel like with this trade we traded a lot, but we got back three quality players, ... Antoine Walker is one of the very best, multi-faceted, versatile players in this game."

"I'd like my reputation to stay as it is and to be remembered for a wonderful decade."

"It's a reality we have to understand. (O'Neal) has to be more diligent. We have to be more diligent protecting him. We need him in the game."

"I should have played him in New Jersey. I regret that. He could have helped on (Vince) Carter."

"We had a great fourth quarter defensively. We did not get into foul trouble early and made some really big defensive plays. They shot the ball extremely well tonight. We were down going into the fourth quarter and really raised the level of our defense."

"But it's up to Shaquille, too. I mean, it's up to him. And this is where the old coach came out of Stu. He started using some coaching terminology. He said, 'Well, you've got to get him to make a V-cut every now and then. If he makes a V-cut, then they impede his progress, they'll call it."

"We didn't play with great desire and we got our heads handed to us for the second game in a row. Crossroads No. 1 is where we're at right now."

"We feel that he will be able to play three positions for us, giving us added versatility."

"When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion."

"I think people got a view of absolute greatness, back and forth. The bigger the moment, both of them stepped up even bigger and bigger."

"People got a view of absolute greatness. It's absolutely beyond description. I haven't seen players do that in a long time."

"He was at the rim all night. He has tremendous athleticism, strength, force and instincts."

"I think the overall health is OK. Everybody has something wrong with them but it is not debilitating. We just have to keep our fingers crossed everyday that we can keep everybody on the court."

"I was very conscious of (players') minutes and in the end I was very conscious of health. Today is not a good barometer to judge us."

"I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind."

"I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think and feel."