Hangout Quotes

Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by

all and thought to include all; but now,

to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal,

it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till,

if its framers could rise from their graves,

they could not at all recognize it.

The biggest thing in life is to have the heart of a champion.

You have to take risks to achieve greatness.

It does not matter how you came into the world,

what matters is that you are here.

If there is no struggle,

there is no progress.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain

what I consider the most enviable of all titles,

the character of an honest man.

God is in the details.

Liberty,

when it begins to take root,

is a plant of rapid growth.

Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold

if the market shut down for 10 years.

Old minds are like old horses;

you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

No man succeeds without

a good woman behind him.

Wife or mother,

if it is both,

he is twice blessed indeed.

Men do not shape destiny,

destiny produces the man for the hour.

Friendship,

like the immortality of the soul,

is too good to be believed.

Education is the most powerful driver of

economic growth.

There will one day spring from the brain of science

a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities,

so absolutely terrifying, that even man,

the fighter,

who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death,

will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

I’m not afraid to be different.

Education is not the filling of a pail,

but the lighting of a fire.

The youth need to be enabled to

become job generators from job seekers.

History is the version of past events

that people have decided to agree upon.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.