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

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital.

Capital is only the fruit of labor,

and could never have existed if labor had not first existed.

Labor is the superior of capital,

and deserves much the higher consideration.

This country,

with its institutions,

belongs to the people who inhabit it.

Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government,

they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it,

or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

He has a right to criticize,

who has a heart to help.

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.

Don't worry when you are not recognized,

but strive to be worthy of recognition.

I have always found that mercy bears

richer fruits than strict justice.

I do the very best I know how

the very best I can;

and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Government of the people,

by the people,

for the people,

shall not perish from the Earth.

All that I am,

or hope to be,

I owe to my angel mother.

My great concern is not whether you have failed,

but whether you are content with your failure.

How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg?

Four.

Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

When I do good I feel good,

when I do bad I feel bad,

and that's my religion.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

I don't like that man.

I must get to know him better.

It has been my experience that folks

who have no vices have very few virtues.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation

will be the philosophy of government in the next.

I am a slow walker,

but I never walk back.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow.

The shadow is what we think of it;

the tree is the real thing.

You can fool all the people some of the time,

and some of the people all the time,

but you cannot fool all the people all the time.