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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
This is the last of earth! I am content.
All that I am my mother made me.
Duty is ours, results are God's.
We know the redemption must come.
Whoever tells the best story wins.
Try and fail,but don't fail to try.
Individual liberty is individual power.
Westward the star of empire takes its way.
The freedom of the press should be inviolate.
Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.
A stout heart, a clear conscience, and never despair.
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God.
[I believe in the] rebuilding of Judea as an independent nation.
Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union.
America is a friend of freedom everywhere, but a custodian only of our own.
From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
The four most miserable years of my life were my four years in the presidency.
Our Constitution rests on the good sense and the respect of the American people.
I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.
It has been my custom for many years to read the Bible in its entirety once a year
Life is a problem; mortal man was made to solve the solemn problem right or wrong.
The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.
I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year.
The firmest security of peace is the preparation during peace of the defenses of war.
May our country be always successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
The Law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.
Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
To believe that everyone is honest is folly, but to believe that no one is honest is worse.
It was the special purpose of Christ's appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
The magistrate is the servant not of his own desires, not even of the people, but of his God
His face is livid, gaunt his whole body, his breath is green with gall; his tongue drips poison.
There is nothing so deep and nothing so shallow which political enmity will not turn to account.
I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
Death fixes forever the relation existing between the departed spirit and the survivors upon earth.
The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.
A stranger would think that the people of the United States had no other occupation than electioneering.
It is of no use to discover our own faults and infirmities unless the discovery prompts up to amendment.
The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
No book in the world deserves to be so unceasingly studied, and so profoundly meditated upon as the Bible.
To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs.
There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.
The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention.
A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.
We understand now, we've been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
