Spped Quotes

If a man can...

make a better mousetrap,

the world will make a beaten,

path to his door.

Spend each day trying to be a little wiser

than you were when you woke up.

I hope I can be as good

of a father to my son

as my dad was to me.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

I am proud of the fact

that I never invented weapons to kill.

At the end of the day

the most overwhelming

key to a child's success

is the positive

involvement of parents.

You’re only given a little spark of madness.

You mustn’t lose it.

To become truly great,

one has to stand with people,

not above them.

Ultimately,

education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth.

It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

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.

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds’ worth of distance run.

We should not look back unless

it is to derive useful lessons from past errors,

and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

I was a veteran,

before I was a teenager.

Principles have no real force except

when one is well fed.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature

opposition to it is his love of justice.

These principles are an eternal antagonism;

and when brought into collision so fiercely,

as slavery extension brings them,

shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

Nothing astonishes men

so much as common sense and plain dealing.

For every complex problem,

there is a solution that is clear,

simple, and wrong.

Not everything that is faced can be changed,

but nothing can be changed until it is faced.