Spped Quotes

The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.

Good is positive.

Evil is merely privative,

not absolute: it is like cold,

which is the privation of heat.

All evil is so much death or nonentity.

Benevolence is absolute and real.

So much benevolence as a man hath,

so much life hath he.

I had three chairs

in my house;

one for solitude,

two for friendship,

three for society.

Character,

not circumstances,

makes the man.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

To live without hope is to cease to live.

Satire is tragedy plus time.

Revolutions go not backward.

Life’s a game,

but it’s not fair.

Leadership is not about titles;

it’s about influence and service.

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Passion is energy,

Feel the power,

that comes from focusing

on what excites you.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

You don’t take a photograph,

you make it.

I’m not afraid to be different.

I hold that while man exists,

it is his duty to improve not only his own condition,

but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

If the great American people will only keep their temper,

on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end,

and the question which now distracts the country

will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of

like character which have originated in this government

have been adjusted.

Truth is like the sun.

You can shut it out

for a time, but it

ain't goin' away.

My mother never breast fed me,

she told me she only liked me as a friend.