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> You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by encouraging class hatred. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn. You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves. > Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under a just God, can not long retain it. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. This is a world of compensations and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. > Every man is proud of what he does well and no man is proud of what he does not do well. With the former, his heart is in his work and he will do twice as much of it with less fatigue. The latter performs a little imperfectly, looks at it in disgust, turns from it and imagines himself exceedingly tired. The little he has done comes to nothing, for want of finishing. > A capacity and taste for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key or one of the keys to the already solved problems. And not only so, it gives a relish and facility for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones. > Every blade of grass is a study and to produce two, where there was but one is both profit and pleasure. > Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty, as we understand it. > 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. > Better to keep one's mouth shut and be thought a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt. > No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. > Nearly all men can stand adversity but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. > Sir my concern is not whether God is on our side. My great concern is to be on God's side. > I am not concerned that you have fallen -1 am concerned that you arise. > I will prepare and some day my chance will come. > I may be a slow walker but I never look back. > Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. > The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time I simply tried to do the best each day, as each day came. > Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? > I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has. |
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