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