Popular Quotes Through Time

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river.

Nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face, nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting out.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.

I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.

Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.

It's my experience that folks who have no vices have generally very few virtues.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.

That some achieve great success is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

The best way to predict your future is to create it.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubts.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. ... that of being truly esteemed of my fellow‑men.

We cannot escape history.