Quotes 81 till 100 of 264.
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Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.
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How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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I am a patient man - always willing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance; and also to give ample time for repentance. Still I must save this government if possible.
Letter to Reverdy Johnson (26 July 1862). -
I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.
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I am not concerned that you have fallen - I am concerned that you arise.
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I am rather inclined to silence.
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I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.
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I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.
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I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
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I can see how a man can look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.
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I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.
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I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
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I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
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I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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I dream of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
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