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

The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim

their fugitives I have constantly admitted.

The legal right of Congress to interfere with

their institution in the states,

I have constantly denied.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain

that this nation, under God,

shall have a new birth of freedom

and that government of the people,

by the people, for the people,

shall not perish from the earth.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought

forth on this continent, a new nation,

conceived in Liberty,

and dedicated to the proposition that

all men are created equal.

The highest art is always the most religious,

and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to

those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect,

it is when I contemplate the cause of my country,

deserted by all the world beside,

and I standing up boldly and lone

and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery,

I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

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.

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.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

That I am not a member of any Christian church is true;

but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures,

and I have never spoken with

intentional disrespect of religion in general,

or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

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.

Hold on with a bulldog grip,

and chew and choke as much as possible.

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.

Public sentiment is everything.

With public sentiment,

nothing can fail.

Without it,

nothing can succeed.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

A woman is the only thing

I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

I do the very best I know how

the very best I can;

and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

My great concern is not whether you have failed,

but whether you are content with your failure.

How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg?

Four.

Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg.