“My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.”
Best“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.”
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“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 philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.”
Government“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”
Hope“I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”
Religion“Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.”
Best“That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.”
Great“If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.”
Respect“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”
Failure“Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.”
God“I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.”
Hope“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“The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.”
Best“The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.”
Art“With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.”
God“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.”
Good“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.”
Men“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“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“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.”
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