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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.
I shall always think of myself first and foremost... as a hunter.
If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything.
Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one.
We cannot but believe that He who made the world still governs it.
I always remember the prayers of my mother as they always forever.
Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.
A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.
Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.
My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.
If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.
I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life.
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.
You know you've reached middle age when all you exercise is caution
The power of hope upon human exertion, and happiness, is wonderful.
God bless the soldiers and seamen, with all their brave commanders.
What are you gonna do for a face when the baboon wants his ass back?
Adversity does not make us frail; it only shows us how frail we are.
I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.
If i get 8 hours to cut a tree i'll spend 7 hours to sharp my knife.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us.
Without Divine assistance I can not succeed; with it I can not fail.
Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.
Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it's very hard to repair.
There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.
The best way to get rid of your enemies is to make them your friends.
What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.
As the problems are new, we must disenthrall ourselves from the past.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.
I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else.
I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.
I couldn't be two faced. If I had two faces, I wouldn't wear this one.
I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game.
We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to be true views.
A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.
So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!
As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you.
One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well.
Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.
You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right.
If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.