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

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens,

you can never regain their respect and esteem.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day,

if I did not laugh I should die.

I never had a policy;

I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Any people anywhere,

being inclined and having the power,

have the right to rise up,

and shake off the existing government,

and form a new one that suits them better.

This is a most valuable

a most sacred right a right,

which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

When the white man governs himself,

that is self government;

but when he governs himself and also governs another man,

that is more than self

government

that is despotism.

Gold is good in its place;

but loving,

brave,

patriotic men are better than gold.

If we could first know where we are,

and whither we are tending,

we could then better judge what to do,

and how to do it.

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.

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

I have great respect for the semicolon;

it is a mighty handy little fellow.

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.

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.

Common looking people are the best in the world:

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

Lets have faith that right makes might;

and in that faith let us,

to the end,

dare to do our duty as we understand it.

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.

As I would not be a slave,

so I would not be a master.

This expresses my idea of democracy.