शांत Quotes

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

Pride goes before destruction,

and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by

all and thought to include all; but now,

to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal,

it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till,

if its framers could rise from their graves,

they could not at all recognize it.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

I haven’t slept for ten days,

because that would be too long.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

For prayer is nothing

else than being on terms

of friendship with God.

My dream is of a place and a time

where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

It’s not whether you get knocked down,

it’s whether you get up.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Every man has his own courage,

and is betrayed because he seeks in himself

the courage of other persons.

In 'Huckleberry Finn,'

I have drawn Tom Blankenship exactly as he was.

He was ignorant, unwashed,

insufficiently fed;

but he had as good a heart as ever any boy had.

A man is usually more careful of his money

than he is of his principles.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance

with the will of God.

Both may be, and one must be wrong.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us

It is a fact often observed,

that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion,

who cannot write well under other circumstances.

Everything around you that you call life

was made up by people that were no smarter than you.

I spent my whole life learning how to live,

and I still don’t know.