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

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions

which differ from the prejudices of their social environment.

Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed

everything save our modes of thinking and

we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

We still do not know

one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

I think and think for months and years.

Ninety nine times,

the conclusion is false.

The hundredth time I am right.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual,

and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern

with no superhuman authority behind it.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me

than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

If people are good only because they fear punishment,

and hope for reward,

then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Anyone who has never made a mistake

has never tried anything new.

It is with your aid, as the people,

that I think we shall be able to preserve

not the country, for the country will preserve itself,

but the institutions of the country

those institutions which have made us free,

intelligent and happy the most free, the most intelligent,

and the happiest people on the globe.

I have said a hundred times,

and I have no inclination to take it back,

that I believe there is no right,

and ought to be no inclination in the people

of the free States to enter into the slave States,

and to interfere with the question of slavery at all.

I have said that always.

If the great American people will only keep their temper,

on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end,

and the question which now distracts the country

will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of

like character which have originated in this government

have been adjusted.

In so far as the government lands can be disposed of,

I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so

that every poor man may have a home.

To the best of my judgment, I have labored for,

and not against, the Union.

As I have not felt, so I have not expressed

any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren.

I have constantly declared,

as I really believed, the only difference between

them and us is the difference of circumstances.

I was losing interest in politics,

when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again.

What I have done since then is pretty well known.

Nothing new here,

except my marrying,

which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

I understand a ship to be made for the carrying

and preservation of the cargo,

and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo,

it should never be abandoned.

This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless

it fails and the possibility of its preservation shall cease to exist,

without throwing passengers and cargo overboard.

My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana,

in my eighth year... It was a wild region,

with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods.

There I grew up... Of course when I came of age,

I did not know much.

Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher...

but that was all.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by

every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap

let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges;

let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs;

let it be preached from the pulpit,

proclaimed in legislative halls,

and enforced in courts of justice.