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

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation

whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,

and you allow him to do so whenever

he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose

and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path.

It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

I have great respect for the semicolon;

it is a mighty handy little fellow.

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

When you have got an elephant by

the hind legs and he is trying to run away,

it's best to let him run.

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.

Common looking people are the best in the world:

that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Lets have faith that right makes might;

and in that faith let us,

to the end,

dare to do our duty as we understand it.

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.

As I would not be a slave,

so I would not be a master.

This expresses my idea of democracy.

I care not much for a man's religion

whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

The occasion is piled high with difficulty,

and we must rise with the occasion.

As our case is new,

so we must think anew and act anew.

That some achieve great success,

is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves;

and under the rule of a just God,

cannot long retain it.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man,

with an ability to grasp the infinite,

to exist only for a day!

No,

no,

man was made for immortality.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought

not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat,

for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the

wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.

Plainly,

the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

The things I want to know are in books;

my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.