Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... the fate of humanity is in his hands.
Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.
The leading rule for a man of every calling is diligence; never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.
Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two [good and evil].
It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.
I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men.
I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff.
It is not the qualified voters, but the qualified voters who choose to vote, that constitute political power.
When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life.
Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.
No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.
He who does something at the head of one Regiment, will eclipse him who does nothing at the head of a hundred.
I am the President of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me these votes.
In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.
Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.
Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way.
Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.
A right result, at this time, will be worth more to the world, than ten times the men, and ten times the money.
The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.
Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.
It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.
I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.
My Dear McClellan, if you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully.
I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.
I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.
Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.
Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief.
Cling to liberty and right; battle fro them; leed for them; die for them, if need be; and have confidence in God.
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.
How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her
Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.
If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.
Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.
Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go.
It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this year as well as last.
A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.
If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they'd have to sleep standing up.
We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.
The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.
Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.
We hope all danger may be overcome; but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous.