Identity Quotes

He who makes a beast of himself

gets rid of the pain of being a man.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call

an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

Without economic progress,

social progress is not possible.

No matter how much cats fight,

there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Pain is weakness leaving the body.

You can fool all the people some of the time,

and some of the people all the time,

but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

As far as I'm concerned,

I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

He who is brave is free.

In preparing for battle,

I have always found that plans are useless,

but planning is indispensable.

Our unity is our strength,

and our diversity is our power.

One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is

to invent your way out.

It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn

that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy

, working at ten dollars per month)

have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth,

and aristocratic family distinction.

I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.

It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.

The people will save their government,

if the government itself will allow them.

If Singapore is a nanny state,

then I am proud to have fostered one.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.

Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

I don’t know why people think dreams are nonsense.

I have always hated slavery, I think,

as much as any abolitionist.

I have been an Old Line Whig.

I have always hated it,

but I have always been quiet about it until

this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

You have to work hard and be patient.

Success rarely comes overnight.