-I never had a policy; I have just tried to do
my very best each and every day.
-Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
-No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
-I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
-When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
-Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
-When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
-No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
-A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
-He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
-I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
-Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
-Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
-Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
-In the end, it's not the years in your life
that count. It's the life in your years.
-Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you
want to test a man's character, give him power.
-Character is like a tree and reputation like a
shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
-You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
-Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
-Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
-Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
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