To all who have known really happy family lives, that is, to all who have known or who have witnessed the greatest happiness which there can be on this earth, it is hardly necessary to say that the hi...
If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
I have only a second rate brain, but I think I have a capacity for action.
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
To befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business & corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.
Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
If there is not the war, you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too bitter and joy too keen to allow me to become either cast down or elated for more than a very brief p...
No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care
The government is us; WE are the government, you and I."- Theodore Roosevelt
I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
There is a delight in the hardy life of the open.There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care
Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservati...
I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.