Wisdom Quotes, page 125

“Reputation is like fine china: once broken, it's very hard to repair.”

“You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence.”

“You can't make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak.”

“Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.”

“I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.”

“These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they and all others shall have.”

“The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do, for themselves in their separate and individual capacities.”

“If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.”

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”

“Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.”

“A man's legs must be long enough to reach the ground.”

“It is much easier to ride a horse in the direction it is going.”

“Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money.”

“In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except with the passing of time.”

“Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.”

“Public opinion in this country is everything.”

“I could write shorter sermons, but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop.”

“It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing.”

“There is no greater injustice than to wring your profits from the sweat of another man's brow.”

“Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.”

“We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.”

“I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game.”

“Avoid popularity if you would have peace.”

“Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.”

“When you have an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.”

“The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776.”

“As a peacemaker, the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.”

“Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.”

“When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government — that is despotism.”

“You have more of a feeling of personal resentment than I have. Perhaps I have too little of it, but I never thought it paid.”