Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible. |
Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual manners for the public good |
How many legs does a dog have, if you call his tail a leg? The answer is four, because calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. |
Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed. |
Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. |
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. |
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards. |
I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down... |
I am for the people of the whole nation doing just as they please in all matter which concern the whole nation; for those of each part doing just as they choose in all matters which concern no other part; and for each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else. |
I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number. |
I am glad to know that there is a system of labor where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would like to God that such a system prevailed all over the world |
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong. |
I am not concerned that you have fallen / I am concerned that you arise. |
I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races - I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, |
I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races - I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, |