Famous Quotes
Friday, February 29th, 2008When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out
Famous Quotes and Sayings - Bismarck
When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out
Famous Quotes and Sayings - Bismarck
If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.
- Abraham Lincoln
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
- Abraham Lincoln
Events
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Abraham Lincoln
Source: April 4, 1864 - Letter to Albert Hodges
- Abraham Lincoln
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature, and has no chance of being free unless made or kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
- John Stuart Mill
Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense
- Mignon McLaughlin
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about
Famous Quotes - Oscar Wilde
A pre-emptive war in ‘defense’ of freedom would surely destroy freedom, because one simply cannot engage in barbarous action without becoming a barbarian, because one cannot defend human values by calculated and unprovoked violence without doing mortal damage to the values one is trying to defend.
- J. William Fulbright
Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.
- Satchel Paige
More Dance Quotes
You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.
Abraham Lincoln
Source: August 24, 1855 - Letter to Joshua Speed
The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you, and are as completely your masters, as you are the master of your own negroes.
Abraham Lincoln
Source: August 24, 1855 - Letter to Joshua Speed
- Abraham Lincoln