Samuel Quotes

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

Ever Tried. Ever Failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.

There's never an end for the sea.

Every child has a dream, to pursue the dream is in every child's hand to make it a reality. One's invention is another's tool.

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.

The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it.

A true patriot would keep the attention of his fellow citizens awake to their grievances, and not allow them to rest till the causes of their just complaints are removed.

Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.

You know me. It's my duty to please that booty.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Our union is now complete; our constitution composed, established, and approved. You are now the guardians of your own liberties.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

The highest ideal of cure is the speedy, gentle, and enduring restoration of health by the most trustworthy and least harmful way.

Nil desperandum, -- Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of patriotic fire, we will rekindle it.

A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.

The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.

If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity.

If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.

We Jews, we are the destroyers and will remain the destroyers. Nothing you can do will meet our demands and needs. We will forever destroy because we want a world of our own.

Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Nothing is more real than nothing.

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.

Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote...that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

The great battles, the battles that decide our destiny and the destiny of generations yet unborn, are not fought on public platforms, but in the lonely hours of the night and in moments of agony.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

They might in the future more than ever before engage in hunting beavers.

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.

The Jesuits…are a secret society – a sort of Masonic order – with superadded features of revolting odiousness, and a thousand times more dangerous.

I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue

All great soul-winners have been men of much and mighty prayer, and all great revivals have been preceded and carried out by persevering, prevailing knee-work in the closet.

Dear incomprehension, it's thanks to you I'll be myself, in the end.

In God's school we learn through the heart rather than through the head, and by faith rather than logic.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

I am also actively involved in my church and its community activities. We have programs to improve the lives of our congregation and programs of outreach in the community.