Compulsions Quotes

Man is the only animal that blushes

or needs to.

Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it

and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief

that it is in course of ultimate extinction,

or its advocates will push it forward,

till it shall become alike lawful in all the States old as well as new

North as well as South.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Remember that when you leave this earth,

you can take with you nothing that you have received

only what you have given.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

The greatest delight which the fields

and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.

Not all those who wander are lost.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

I would never allow anyone to give me money,

no difference how badly I needed it,

I wanted literally to earn my living.

Our faith comes in moments;

our vice is habitual.

Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge

among the people.

A chief event of life is the day in which

we have encountered a mind that startled us.

There is only one corner of the universe

you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union,

and is not either to save or to destroy slavery.

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave,

I would do it;

and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone,

I would also do that.

I can only say that there is not a man

living who wishes more sincerely than I do,

to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it

but there is only one proper and effectual mode by

which it can be accomplished,

and that is by Legislative authority: and this,

as far as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting.

The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.

The longer I live,

the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.

I just want to be remembered as someone

who helped push culture forward.

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot,

but I always found them.