10000+ Motivational and Inspiring Quotes About Life, Love & Success

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it

not for themselves and, under a just God,

cannot long retain it.

The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children,

and then sell them into interminable bondage,

with no other motive than that

which is furnished by dollars and cents,

is so much worse than the most depraved murderer

that he can never receive pardon at my hand.

The highest art is always the most religious,

and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you,

or a man into voting for you,

try it till you are satisfied.

The people will save their government,

if the government itself will allow them.

The time comes upon every public man

when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal'

was of no practical use in effecting our separation from

Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that,

but for future use.

These men ask for just the same thing,

fairness, and fairness only.

This, so far as in my power,

they, and all others, shall have.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day,

if I did not laugh I should die.

Any people anywhere,

being inclined and having the power,

have the right to rise up,

and shake off the existing government,

and form a new one that suits them better.

This is a most valuable

a most sacred right a right,

which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man,

I spend one third of my time thinking about

myself and what I am going to say and two

thirds about him and what he is going to say.

With public sentiment,

nothing can fail.

Without it,

nothing can succeed.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path.

It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

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.

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

Hold on with a bulldog grip,

and chew and choke as much as possible.

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right;

but it is my constant anxiety and prayer

that I and this nation may be on the Lord's side.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives.

I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another,

but let him work diligently and build one for himself,

thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe

from violence when built.

No man is good enough to govern another man

without the other's consent.