The repository contains 88 quotes in the category “Classics.”
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We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting and end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. A house divided against itself cannot stand.
President Abraham Lincoln
1809 — 1865
Illinois Republican State Convention
June 1858
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803 — 1882
If a man write a better book, or make a better mouse-trap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803 — 1882
The chief business of the American people is business.
President Calvin Coolidge
1872 — 1933
Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
President John F. Kennedy
1917 — 1963
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
1890 — 1969
Let us brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: “This was their finest hour.”
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
1874 — 1965
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
1874 — 1965
The better part of valour is discretion.
William Shakespeare
1564 — 1616
Henry IV, Part I
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
Woody Allen
1935 —
When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
Yogi Berra
1925 —
Our Constitution is in actual operation. Everything appears to promise that it will last, but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790
Early to bed and early to rise make a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790
He that lieth down with dogs, shall rise up with fleas.
Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790
Remember that time is money.
Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790
The rotten apple spoils his companion.
Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790
Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.
Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790
You see things as they are and say, “Why?” But I dream things that never were and say, “Why not?”
George Bernard Shaw
1856 — 1950
I wouldn’t want to belong to a club that would accept me as a member.
Groucho Marx
1890 — 1977
The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
Mark Twain
1835 — 1910
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