“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 am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.”
“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.”
“The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.”
“Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
“Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.”*
“I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.”
“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.”
“To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.”
“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”
“The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.”
“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”
“Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.”
“We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.”
“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.”