We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.
Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.
When you make it to the top, turn and reach down for the person behind you.
When arguing with a fool, make sure the opponent isn't doing the exact same thing.
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the Earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.
Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer.
Achievement has no color.
From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.
No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.
If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.
Stand with anyone that is right; stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.
Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate.
The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.
A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.
Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived.
If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.
You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!
Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world...enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space.
That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence built.
The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.
Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.
Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody.
Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.
"The problem with internet quotes is that you cannot always depend on their accuracy.” ― Abraham Lincoln 1864 (ok, maybe this one is questionable)
Through their deeds, the dead of battle have spoken more eloquently for themselves than any of the living ever could. But we can only honor them by rededicating ourselves to the cause for which they gave a last full measure of devotion.
Never do anything for anyone who can just as well do it themself.
Accustomed to trample on the rights of those around you, you have lost the genius of your own independence, and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises.
I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
I will study and prepare myself, and someday my chance will come.
If you think you can you can, if you think you can't you're right!
The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men’s labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name, liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names, liberty and tyranny. The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty, especially as the sheep was a black one. Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of the word liberty.
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www.thedailybeast.com
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