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

I care not much for a man's religion

whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

The occasion is piled high with difficulty,

and we must rise with the occasion.

As our case is new,

so we must think anew and act anew.

That some achieve great success,

is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves;

and under the rule of a just God,

cannot long retain it.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man,

with an ability to grasp the infinite,

to exist only for a day!

No,

no,

man was made for immortality.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought

not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat,

for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the

wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.

Plainly,

the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

The things I want to know are in books;

my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

You have to do your own growing no matter

how tall your grandfather was.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected?

I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us.

It cannot come from abroad.

If destruction be our lot,

we must ourselves be its author and finisher.

As a nation of freemen,

we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

With Malice toward none,

with charity for all,

with firmness in the right,

as God gives us to see the right,

let us strive on to finish the work we are in,

to bind up the nation's wounds.

Stand with anybody that stands right,

stand with him while he is right and part with him

when he goes wrong.

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me.

They have clung to me all my life.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

I do not think much of a man

who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

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.

All that I am,

or hope to be,

I owe to my angel mother.

When I do good I feel good,

when I do bad I feel bad,

and that's my religion.