Destony Quotes

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.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at

the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone,

somewhere, may be happy.

I’m not afraid to be different.

A nation will not survive morally or economically

when so few have so much,

while so many have so little.

From each according to his ability,

to each according to his needs.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone

who can do him absolutely no good.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like,

but in having the right to do what we ought.

Blessed are the young,

for they shall inherit the national debt.

If this is coffee,

please bring me some tea;

but if this is tea,

please bring me some coffee.

Your margin is my opportunity.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

I’m not a fan of the mainstream.

As I would not be a slave,

so I would not be a master.

This expresses my idea of democracy.

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house,

that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

We are part of this universe;

we are in this universe,

but perhaps more important than both of those facts,

is that the universe is in us.

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,

and the life of the candle will not be shortened.

Money often costs too much.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal;

it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.