Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.
. . . peace is a thing which a person must be willing to fight for . . .
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
I was born and have ever remaind [sic] in the most humble walks of life.
As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.
To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.
I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop
With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
Believing everybody is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.
You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.
No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion.
I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.
I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.
Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.
The person who is incapable of making a mistake, is incapable of anything.
Ready are we all to cry out and ascribe motives when our toes are pinched.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me
I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.
Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms.
When you make it to the top, turn and reach down for the person behind you.
Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts.
I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.
The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want.
Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration
A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.
You are green, it is true; but they are green also. You are all green alike.
When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
In all that people can do for themselves, government ought not to interfere.
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.
Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.
I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.
Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.
Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
A long visit to a friend is often a great bore. Never make people twice glad.
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'.
Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other right.
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
Lincoln called laughter "the joyous, beautiful, universal evergreen of life."
Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.
Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.
When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.