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The worst lesson that can be taught a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings.
They believe that the institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy, but that the promulgation of Abolition doctrines tends rather to increase than abate its evils.
They believe that the Congress of the United States has no power under the Constitution to interfere with the institution of slavery in the different States.
We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.
Whatever Spiteful fools may Say — Each jealous, ranting yelper — No woman ever played the whore Unless She had a man to help her.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be "damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
Oh! I want to put my arms around you, I ache to hold you close. Your ring is a great comfort. I look at it and think she does love me or I wouldn't be wearing it!
[A] great Empire, like a great Cake, is most easily diminished at the Edges.
I have now come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason; I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively.
I don’t go so far as to think that the only good Indian is the dead Indian, but I believe nine out of every ten are, and I shouldn’t like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth.
The ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year – and to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
By God, if you try anything like that, I'll kick you, I'll bite you, I'll kick you in the balls. I'll do anything to you — you'd better leave me alone.
I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
No candid observer will deny that whatever of good there may be in our American civilization is the product of Christianity.
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
Resolutions upon the subject of domestic slavery having passed both branches of the General Assembly at its present session, the undersigned hereby protest against the passage of the same.
The most vicious cowboy has more moral principle than the average Indian.
[T]he British workman has more to hope for from the rising tide of Tory democracy than from the dried up drain-pipe of Radicalism.
Abraham Lincoln his hand and pen he will be good but God knows When
It was not a Government that built up the skill and craft of this country...It was private individuals who patiently persevered, building up their businesses bit by bit...Their success provided employ...