Motivational Quotes

I don't know who my grandfather was;

I am much more concerned to know

what his grandson will be.

It is not my nature,

when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles

the oppression of tyranny to make

their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens;

but rather would I do all in my power to raise

the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation

whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,

and you allow him to do so whenever

he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose

and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path.

It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

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.

Everybody likes a compliment.

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

When you have got an elephant by

the hind legs and he is trying to run away,

it's best to let him run.

Hold on with a bulldog grip,

and chew and choke as much as possible.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right;

but it is my constant anxiety and prayer

that I and this nation may be on the Lord's side.

All the armies of Europe,

Asia and Africa combined,

with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted)

in their military chest;

with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force,

take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge,

in a trial of a thousand years.

Common looking people are the best in the world:

that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

When I hear a man preach,

I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives.

I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously

and in concert to fleece the people;

and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves,

we are called upon to

appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

As I would not be a slave,

so I would not be a master.

This expresses my idea of democracy.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

Whether it be true or not,

I can say, for one, that I have no other

so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow

men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

How far I shall succeed in gratifying

this ambition is yet to be developed.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another,

but let him work diligently and build one for himself,

thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe

from violence when built.