Alphabet Quotes

A typical vice of American politics is

the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

Wealth is like seawater;

the more we drink,

the thirstier we become.

I was losing interest in politics,

when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again.

What I have done since then is pretty well known.

If you let the world know who you are,

it will either accept you or reject you.

Although the world is full of suffering,

it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Dare to know!

Have the courage to use your own understanding.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

With the past,

I have nothing to do;

nor with the future.

I live now.

You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim

is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

The colonel replied that he didn't care

how my men had got the job done.

He was happy that it had been accomplished.

He said that, obviously,

no matter how much or how little I knew technically,

I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

It is the supreme art of the teacher

to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Upon the subject of education,

not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it,

I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we,

as a people, can be engaged in.

My wife dresses to kill.

She cooks the same way.

Change is necessary for progress.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.

In a democracy,

the well being,

individuality and happiness of every citizen is important

for the overall prosperity,

peace and happiness of the nation.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,

adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Life has a way of changing things whether you want it to or not.