Death Quotes

Character is higher than intellect.

A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent

upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil

and in the proportionable amount of the same

which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.

Friendship may,

and often does,

grow into love,

but love never

subsides into

friendship.

The mind is everything.

What you think you become.

I’ve always been a bit of a dreamer.

The best executive is one who has sense

enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self

restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Diversification is protection against ignorance.

What is a farm but a mute gospel?

I am not bound to win,

but I am bound to be true.

I am not bound to succeed,

but I am bound to live by the light that I have.

I must stand with anybody that stands right,

and stand with him while he is right,

and part with him when he goes wrong.

I don't know who I am,

but I know who I'm not.

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective Election and power are.

I walk on untrodden ground.

There is scarcely any part of my conduct,

which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

I’ll take a child that has talent and a great mother over a child

that has world class talent and a mother that’s a nut.

I was lucky that I met

the right mentors

and teachers at

the right moment.

To love another person is to see the face of God.

Every book is a quotation;

and every house is a quotation out of all forests,

and mines,

and stone quarries;

and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Football is a simple game;

22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes,

and at the end,

the Germans always win.

I saved a girl from being attacked last night.

I controlled myself.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.

We, of this Congress and this administration,

will be remembered in spite of ourselves.

No personal significance, or insignificance,

can spare one or another of us.

The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down

in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

Hatred does not cease by hatred,

but only by love;

this is the eternal rule.