“If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.”
Business“The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.”
Best“If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.”
Business“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.”
Government“Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.”
Marriage“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“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”
Failure“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”
Best“I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”
Religion“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”
Hope“Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.”
Great“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“I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.”
Hope“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.”
God“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.”
Equality“The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.”
Best“There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'”
Time“Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.”
Best“My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.”
Best“The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.”
Government“If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.”
Respect“Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.”
Men