Archived Quotes

My lyrics aren't offensive.

Some people find everything offensive.

We see God face to face every hour,

and know the savor of Nature.

Be thankful for what you have;

you'll end up having more.

If you concentrate on

what you don't have,

you will never,

ever have enough.

Don't worry when you are not recognized,

but strive to be worthy of recognition.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,

and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

The realest people don’t have a lot of friends.

If we are not free,

no one will respect us.

This country,

with its institutions,

belongs to the people who inhabit it.

Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government,

they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it,

or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

Happiness is beneficial for the body,

but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Morality is of the highest importance

but for us,

not for God.

Government of the people,

by the people,

for the people,

shall not perish from the Earth.

I had a very, very interesting childhood,

but, oh my, education was the primary focus in our family.

I wanted to know the name of every stone

and flower and insect and bird and beast,

I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life

but there was no one to tell me.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task

remaining before us, that from these honored dead

we take increased devotion to that cause for

which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

Nature is a mutable cloud

which is always and never the same.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Leadership is influence,

nothing more,

nothing less.

You can have a job,

or you can have a career,

or you can have a calling.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement and success have no meaning.

Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times.