Quotes 21 till 40 of 416.
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It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river.
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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 the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.
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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.
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Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth. Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man's power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
Who Is Man? (1965) -
What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
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A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
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A Government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.
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A house divided against itself cannot stand - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
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A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.
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A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.
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A mighty pain to love it is,
And 't is a pain that pain to miss;
But of all pains, the greatest pain
It is to love, but love in vain.From Anacreon, vii. Gold; reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). -
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
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A number of current theoretical explorations will turn out to be passing fancies...
Inward Bound : Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World (1988) p. 45 -
A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general
Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln -
A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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