Alphabet Quotes

I should like to know if,

taking this old Declaration of Independence,

which declares that all men are equal upon principle,

you begin making exceptions to it,

where will you stop?

If one man says it does not mean a Negro,

why not another say it does not mean some other man?

No man ever steps in the same river twice,

for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

I would rather die than

do something which I know

to be a sin, or to be

against God's will.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world

is also a confession of character.

Travel is fatal to prejudice,

bigotry, and narrow mindedness,

and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Buy companies with strong histories of profitability

and with a dominant business franchise.

Your self

worth is determined by you.

You don’t have to depend on someone telling you who you are.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life.

The only completely consistent people are the dead.

A chief event of life is the day in which

we have encountered a mind that startled us.

We are just trying to make tools for people.

I think we must get rid of slavery,

or we must get rid of freedom.

A person who seeks to see the future

must first understand the present.

The most I can do

for my friend is

simply be his friend.

I haven't spoken to my wife in years.

I didn't want to interrupt her.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world

until we make peace with ourselves.

Every man is a consumer,

and ought to be a producer.

He is by constitution expensive,

and needs to be rich.

As a cure for worrying,

work is better than whiskey.

Beauty remains,

even in misfortune.