The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.
If we exchange one dollar, we both have one dollar each. But if we exchange one good thought, we both have two good thoughts
A day spent helping no one but yourself is a day wasted.
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.
We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!
If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Violence begins where knowledge ends.
You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can never please all of the people all of the time.
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others.
Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember
The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.
Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.
Whatever уоu are, bе а good one.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book.
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