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

When we assumed the Soldier,

we did not lay aside the Citizen.

My observation is that

whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty...

it is worse executed by two persons,

and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage,

than the promotion of science and literature.

Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind,

banished from the earth.

Mankind,

when left to themselves,

are unfit for their own government.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition

that morality can be maintained without religion.

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that

national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

To be prepared for war is

one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

If the freedom of speech is taken

away then dumb and silent we may be led,

like sheep to the slaughter.

The value of a dollar is social,

as it is created by society.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love.

Your goodness must have some edge to it,

else it is none.

Character is always known.

Thefts never enrich;

alms never impoverish;

murder will speak out of stone walls.

Give a boy address and accomplishments

and you give him the mastery of palaces

and fortunes where he goes.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Without electricity,

the air would rot.

There are other measures of self

respect for a man,

than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

Truth is beautiful,

without doubt;

but so are lies.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe.

All is system and gradation.

Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

Why need I volumes,

if one word suffice?

Men's actions are too strong for them.

Show me a man who has acted,

and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.