Quotes 161 till 180 of 264.
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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No man is good enough to govern another man without his consent.
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No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
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Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
The Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863 -
Now, I do come from a part of the country where the people say that the only thing in the middle of the road is a yellow line or roadkill.
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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.
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People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
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Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes.
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Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world.
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Public sentiment is everything, without it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.
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Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.
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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
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Right and wrong becomes more difficult for each of us as we grow older, because the older we get the more we know personally about our own human frailties.
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Seriously, I do not think I fit for the presidency.
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Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
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Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
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