Bugger Quotes

Acting is a collaboration between yourself and the world.

The people will save their government,

if the government itself will allow them.

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old,

but of the natural.

Principles have no real force except

when one is well fed.

We are wiser than we know.

I have always hated slavery, I think,

as much as any abolitionist.

I have been an Old Line Whig.

I have always hated it,

but I have always been quiet about it until

this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

Wishing to be friends

is quick work,

but friendship is a slow

ripening fruit.

Acting is not about being someone different.

It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different,

then finding myself in there.

Love recognizes no barriers.

Time is the most valuable resource we have.

The thing I hate most is when people say

‘You’re so lucky.’ Luck has nothing to do with it.

Every day is Day 1.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected?

I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us.

It cannot come from abroad.

If destruction be our lot,

we must ourselves be its author and finisher.

As a nation of freemen,

we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Occurrences in this domain are beyond

the reach of exact prediction

because of the variety of factors in operation,

not because of any lack of order in nature.

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 way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

I haven’t slept for ten days,

because that would be too long.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything

without losing your temper or your self confidence.

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

I still see your shadows in my room.