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Change will not come

if we wait for some other person or some other time.

Friendship is certainly

the finest balm for the

pangs of disappointed love

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

I stay out of politics because

if I begin thinking too much about politics,

I'll probably... drop writing children's books

and become a political cartoonist again.

Every morning we are born again.

What we do today is what matters most.

Don’t let the bastards grind you down.

We are just trying to make tools for people.

You don’t have to be great to start,

but you have to start to be great.

Don’t follow the path.

Go where there is no path and begin the trail.

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

Heaven cannot brook two suns,

nor earth two masters.

I have said a hundred times,

and I have no inclination to take it back,

that I believe there is no right,

and ought to be no inclination in the people

of the free States to enter into the slave States,

and to interfere with the question of slavery at all.

I have said that always.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want,

drink what you don't like,

and do what you'd rather not.

The office of president is one of endless responsibility.

Price is what you pay.

Value is what you get.

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

A revolution is a struggle to the death

between the future and the past.

Liberty cannot be established without morality,

nor morality without faith.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance

with the will of God.

Both may be, and one must be wrong.

Where do the evils like corruption arise from?

It comes from the never

ending greed.

The fight for corruption

free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed

and replace it with 'what can I give' spirit.

It has been my experience that folks

who have no vices have very few virtues.