Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.
Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.
If we exchange one dollar, we both have one dollar each. But if we exchange one good thought, we both have two good thoughts
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Violence begins where knowledge ends.
A day spent helping no one but yourself is a day wasted.
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 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.
Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.
You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry
Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
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.
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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!
Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies.
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.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
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