Popular Quotes Through Time

Half‑finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

Let him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently to build one for himself

Every man, black, white or yellow... that bread should be allowed to go to that mouth without controversy.

I say 'try'; if we never try, we shall never succeed.

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.

I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms, (by no means excluding females.)

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burthens.

No one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them.

I once had the confidence of the people ... and if I have since done any thing, either by design or misadventure, which if known, would subject me to a forfeiture of that confidence, he that knows of that thing, and conceals it, is a traitor to his country's interest.

In one faculty, at least, there can be no dispute of the gentleman's superiority over me, and most other men; and that is, the faculty of entangling a subject, so that neither himself, or any other man, can find head or tail to it.

It is an old maxim and a very sound one, that he that dances should always pay the fiddler.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously, and in concert, to fleece the people, and now, that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.

I want in all cases to do right, and most particularly so, in all cases with women.

Although bad Laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still while they continue in force, for the sake of example, they should be religiously observed.

I have now come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying; and for this reason; I can never be satisfied with any one who would be blockhead enough to have me.

The Savior of the whole world chose twelve disciples, and even one of that small number, selected by superhuman wisdom, turned out a traitor and a devil.

To remain as I am is impossible; I must die or be better, it seems to me.

I doubt not that it [the Bible] is really ... the best cure for the Blues could one but take it according to the truth.

I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, Religion .