“When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.”
Best“Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
Happiness“When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.”
Best“Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?”
Friendship“Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.”
Best“Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.”
Government“All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.”
Life“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.”
Time“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”
Good“I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.”
Politics“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”
Men“If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.”
Respect“The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.”
Future“Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.”
War“Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
Happiness“I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”
Life“In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.”
Best“The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.”
Best“The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.”
Government“No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.”
Good“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.”
Business“There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'”
Time