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I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life.
Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.
What are you gonna do for a face when the baboon wants his ass back?
Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it's very hard to repair.
If i get 8 hours to cut a tree i'll spend 7 hours to sharp my knife.
I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us.
Without Divine assistance I can not succeed; with it I can not fail.
Adversity does not make us frail; it only shows us how frail we are.
I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.
The best way to get rid of your enemies is to make them your friends.
What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.
As the problems are new, we must disenthrall ourselves from the past.
I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.
I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to be true views.
We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
I couldn't be two faced. If I had two faces, I wouldn't wear this one.
I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game.
If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.
The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.
As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you.
One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well.
It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.
So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.
To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.
. . . peace is a thing which a person must be willing to fight for . . .
I was born and have ever remaind [sic] in the most humble walks of life.
If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.
No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.
I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.
I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.
I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop
The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion.
Believing everybody is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.
You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.
With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Ready are we all to cry out and ascribe motives when our toes are pinched.
Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me