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

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters

cannot be trusted with important matters.

Reality is merely an illusion,

albeit a very persistent one.

It's not that I'm so smart,

it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Strive not to be a success,

but rather to be of value.

Peace cannot be kept by force;

it can only be achieved by understanding.

I have always been an old

line Henry Clay Whig.

I do not expect the Union to be dissolved

I do not expect the house to fall

but I do expect it will cease to be divided.

It will become all one thing,

or all the other.

Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing

off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you.

It is different with us.

Here it is every fellow for himself,

or he doesn't get there.

Being elected to Congress,

though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it,

has not pleased me as much as I expected.

You may think it was a very little thing,

and in these days it seems to me like a trifle,

but it was a most important incident in my life.

I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy,

had earned a dollar in less than a day;

that by honest work, I had earned a dollar.

I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

To give victory to the right,

not bloody bullets,

but peaceful ballots only,

are necessary.

We can succeed only by concert.

It is not,

'Can any of us imagine better,' but,

'Can we all do better?'

We find ourselves under the government of

a system of political institutions,

conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty,

than any of which the history of former times tells us.

It was that which gave promise that in due time

the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men,

and that all should have an equal chance.

This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house,

that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

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.

I should like to know if,

taking this old Declaration of Independence,

which declares that all men are equal upon principle,

you begin making exceptions to it,

where will you stop?

If one man says it does not mean a Negro,

why not another say it does not mean some other man?

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws,

but to break up both and make new ones.

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.