When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Whatever you are, be a good one.
In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
I do the very best I know how - the very best I can and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
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All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
I never had a policy I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
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.
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
The things I want to know are in books my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.