People don't change. There are two kinds of people in the world: winners and losers. Black and white. I don't know where gray fits in, or if you can even live in that shade.
The person who is incapable of making a mistake, is incapable of anything.
It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents will not continue to spring up amongst us. And, when they do, they will as naturally seek the gratification of their ruling passion, as others have so done before them.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Cling to liberty and right; battle fro them; leed for them; die for them, if need be; and have confidence in God.
Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.
Reduce the supply of black labor by colonizing the black laborer out of the country, and by precisely so much you increase the demand for and wages of white labor.
Once you’ve read too many trashy best-sellers, you begin to look for something with substance, something that attempts to define the universe.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
We humans can look deep into future and predict what will happen, but then turn around and do nothing about it.
There's more to Life than this