M.J. Abraham Quotes

Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts.

Don't kneel to me, that is not right. You must kneel to God only, and thank Him for the liberty you will hereafter enjoy.

There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one. There is involved in this struggle the question whether your children and my children shall enjoy the privileges we have enjoyed.

The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.

My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.

A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.

Don't pray that God's on our side, pray that we're on his side.

But for that Book, we could not know right from wrong.

A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.

In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party.

I never trusted a man who never smoked or drank.

What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us.

The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion.

Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.

I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.

The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves.

We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we wish to treat it as a wrong in the territories, where our votes will reach it.

We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

When I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he's fighting a swarm of bees.

Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.

Gen. Schurz thinks I was a little cross in my late note to you. If I was, I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.

If they do kill me, I shall never die another death.

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

I believe the declaration that ‘all men are created equal’ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.

One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended.

God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time.

The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.

Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind.

But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.

Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us

Fear is a belief - beliefs can be changed.

Have the courage to make a mistake.

The test of a man is: does he bear apples? Does he bear fruit?

It is unfortunate to consider all lawyers as natural Satanists many are just dumb.

Great men have been characterized by the greatness of their mistakes as well as by the greatness of their achievements.

I am afraid of the worst, but I am not sure what that is.

He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.

Make something beautiful of your life.

I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.

When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact. There's no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.

I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn't change them. That hurt.

I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.

Innovation grows out of membership and a sure sense of responsibility people feel for their work and the organizations that employ them.

We have progressed from the stone age and moved on to the age of stone hearted people

Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.

I'm just living my life and I’m being the best mother that I can and showing that on Teen Mom because that's what that show is about.

I waited a lot of years and I dealt with a lot of criticism about certain things on my face, and once I turned 21, I still felt that I wanted to change that, so I did.

I have no relationships and I'm, like, sad sometimes.