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All Quotes Collection

"Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all."
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"When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat."
35

"Nothing can have value without being an object of utility."
40

"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."
20

"To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete."
40

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
15


"I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary."
51

"We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free."
24

"A man can't ride your back unless it's bent."
46

"A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds."
61


"The only time to buy these is on a day with no "y" in it."
66

"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."
14

"People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant."
60

"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."
49

"I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes."
18


"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."
36

"I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark."
13

"There is a tendency for things to right themselves."
17

"Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death."
53

"It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer."
39


"The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly."
42

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
28

"Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals."
82

"We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."
31


"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
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