Famous Quotes
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
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Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
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All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
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Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
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Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.
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Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
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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.
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
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Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
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