Chartacter Quotes

Let us with caution indulge the supposition

that morality can be maintained without religion.

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that

national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

Let us remember:

One book,

one pen,

one child,

and one teacher

can change

the world.

I’ve always been a bit of a loner.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery,

none but ourselves can free our minds.

The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to

hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time

and still retain the ability to function.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin,

but, of course,

society demands something more than this.

Leadership is making decisions under pressure,

and living with the consequences.

I like criticism.

It makes you strong.

True love is born from understanding.

Every race is a chance to improve.

I choose to live without

hope to protect myself

from disappointment.

It's very effective!

Don’t let the bastards grind you down.

Progress is impossible without change,

and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Reality is the best teacher.

Over grown military establishments are

under any form of government inauspicious to liberty,

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

Self education is,

I firmly believe,

the only kind of education there is.

Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska,

or other new territories,

is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there.

The whole nation is interested that the best

use shall be made of these territories.

We want them for the homes of free white people.

Success is about effort,

not luck.

A man cannot be comfortable

without his own approval.