Alphabet Quotes

This is a competition,

not a recital.

Simple can be harder than complex:

You have to work hard to get your

thinking clean to make it simple.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice,

you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

The greatest want of the world is the want of men

men who will not be bought or sold,

men who in their inmost souls are true and honest.

Happiness cannot be pursued;

it must ensue.

If we desire to avoid insult,

we must be able to repel it;

if we desire to secure peace,

one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity,

it must be known,

that we are at all times ready for War.

Pain is part of the process;

embrace it and move forward.

Courage is grace under pressure.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

I am not what happened to me,

I am what I choose to become.

We are symbols,

and inhabit symbols.

Lenience will operate with greater force,

in some instances than rigor.

It is therefore my first wish to have

all of my conduct distinguished by it.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever

this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

We have two ears and one tongue so that

we would listen more and talk less.

What can be asserted without evidence

can be dismissed without evidence.

Your worth consists in what you are

and not in what you have.

I love to travel,

but hate to arrive.

Confidence is contagious;

so is lack of confidence.

If the great American people will only keep their temper,

on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end,

and the question which now distracts the country

will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of

like character which have originated in this government

have been adjusted.