Alphabet Quotes

The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim

their fugitives I have constantly admitted.

The legal right of Congress to interfere with

their institution in the states,

I have constantly denied.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.

Vulnerability in my songs is what connects people to the music.

Over grown military establishments are

under any form of government inauspicious to liberty,

and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

The most luxurious possession,

the richest treasure anybody has,

is his personal dignity.

I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more

if only they knew they were slaves.

As far as I'm concerned,

I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

My wife dresses to kill.

She cooks the same way.

Work hard in silence,

let your success make the noise.

In matters of truth and justice,

there is no difference between large and small problems,

for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

There is another old poet whose name

I do not now remember who said,

'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

The process is more important than the outcome.

Hold fast to dreams,

for if dreams die,

life is a broken

winged bird that cannot fly.

I believe in the American dream and the power of education.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action,

and we have trusted only to rhetoric.

If we are really to be a great nation,

we must not merely talk;

we must act big.

Should you find a wise critic,

follow them as you would a guide to hidden treasure.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,

committed citizens can change the world.

Indeed,

it is the only thing that ever has.

I fear not the man

who has practiced 10,000 kicks once,

but I fear the man

who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.