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

When I am getting ready to reason with a man,

I spend one third of my time thinking about

myself and what I am going to say and two

thirds about him and what he is going to say.

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.

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.

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 care not much for a man's religion

whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

Public sentiment is everything.

With public sentiment,

nothing can fail.

Without it,

nothing can succeed.

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.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

No matter how much cats fight,

there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

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.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell,

it is simply purgatory.

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.

If I were two faced,

would I be wearing this one?

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.