Pary Quotes

Far better is it to dare mighty things,

to win glorious triumphs,

even though checkered by failure...

than to rank with those poor spirits

who neither enjoy nor suffer much,

because they live in a gray twilight

that knows not victory nor defeat.

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

No religion has mandated killing others

as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

Let the people on both sides keep their self possession,

and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time,

so will this,

and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

The man who loves other countries as much as

his own stands on a level with the man

who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

You have to do your own growing no matter

how tall your grandfather was.

In the first place,

God made idiots.

That was for practice.

Then he made school boards.

I call not for aid from the state,

but for justice.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task

remaining before us, that from these honored dead

we take increased devotion to that cause for

which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

All that I am,

or ever hope to be,

I owe to my mother.

My mother never breast fed me,

she told me she only liked me as a friend.

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs…

you’ll be a man, my son.

Work hard in silence,

let your success make the noise.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people

and not like that of a million people.

Dream,

dream,

dream!

All the armies of Europe,

Asia and Africa combined,

with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted)

in their military chest;

with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force,

take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge,

in a trial of a thousand years.

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If you stay humble and keep working,

good things will come.

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship,

I am disposed to endulge the professors of,

Christianity in the church,

that road to heaven which to them,

shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

If I were two faced,

would I be wearing this one?

All I required to be

happy was friendship

and people I could admire