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

It is the supreme art of the teacher

to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

I have no special talent.

I am only passionately curious.

Look deep into nature,

and then you will understand everything better.

If there should prove to be one real,

living Free State Democrat in Kansas,

I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff

and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of

that soon to be extinct variety of the genus Democrat.

By what principle of original right is it that one

fiftieth or one

ninetieth of a great nation,

by calling themselves a State,

have the right to break up and ruin that nation

as a matter of original principle?

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government,

who assist in bearing its burdens.

Consequently,

I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage,

who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).

For my part, I desire to see the time when education

and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry

shall become much more general than at present,

and should be gratified to have it in my power

to contribute something to the advancement of

any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate

the happy period.

Some day I shall be President.

I have always hated slavery, I think,

as much as any abolitionist.

I have been an Old Line Whig.

I have always hated it,

but I have always been quiet about it until

this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to

keep a young man down; and they will succeed,

too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from

its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task

remaining before us, that from these honored dead

we take increased devotion to that cause for

which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska,

or other new territories,

is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there.

The whole nation is interested that the best

use shall be made of these territories.

We want them for the homes of free white people.

My parents were both born in Virginia,

of undistinguished families

second families,

perhaps I should say.

To the best of my judgment, I have labored for,

and not against, the Union.

As I have not felt, so I have not expressed

any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren.

I have constantly declared,

as I really believed, the only difference between

them and us is the difference of circumstances.

Among the friends of Union,

there is great diversity of sentiment

and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.

In this sad world of ours,

sorrow comes to all;

and to the young,

it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares.

I have had experience enough to know what I say.

Don't swap horses in crossing a stream.

Some single mind must be master,

else there will be no agreement in anything.

I perhaps ought to say that individually

I never was much interested in the Texas question.

I never could see much good to come of annexation,

inasmuch as they were already

a free republican people on our own model.

I am rather inclined to silence.