Spped Quotes

It was not pre arranged.

It just happened that the driver made a demand

and I just didn't feel like obeying his demand.

I was quite tired after spending a full day working.

I have discovered in life

that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go,

if you really want to go.

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.

The way I figured it,

I was even with baseball and baseball with me.

The game had done much for me,

and I had done much for it.

A more secret, sweet,

and overpowering beauty appears to man

when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

R Alphabet and Letter in Red

Let your Discourse with Men of Business

be Short and Comprehensive.

When you reach the end of your rope,

tie a knot in it and hang on

There is no distinctly American criminal class

except Congress.

Stop the crying.

God never gives someone

a gift they are not

capable of receiving.

If he gives us the gift

of Christmas, it is

because we all have the

ability to understand

and receive it.

Hope lies in dreams in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

By what principle of original right is it that one

fiftieth or one

ninetieth of a great nation,

by calling themselves a State,

have the right to break up and ruin that nation

as a matter of original principle?

Politics is not about being right or left,

it’s about doing what is right.

We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous.

We know the court that made it has

often overruled its own decisions,

and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.

I fight for perfection,

not victory.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

In a democracy,

the well being,

individuality and happiness of every citizen is important

for the overall prosperity,

peace and happiness of the nation.

Friendship multiplies

the good of life and

divides the evil.

Truth is mighty and will prevail.

There is nothing wrong with this,

except that it ain't so.