Achievement has no color
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.
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.
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end ... I have lost every other friend on earth I shall at least have one friend left and that friend shall be down inside of...
I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.
A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relis...
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
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.
I have great respect for the semicolon it is a mighty handy little fellow.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
If you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully
While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years.
But for this book we could not know right from wrong.
Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawk...
It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration...