The grandest ambition that any man can possibly have is to so live and so improve himself in heart and brain as to be worthy of the love of some splendid woman; and the grandest ambition of any girl is to make herself worthy of the love and adoration of some magnificent man.
From Robert Green Ingersoll
Whoever marries simply for himself will make a mistake; but whoever loves a woman so well that he says, 'I will make her happy,' makes no mistake. And so with the woman who says, 'I will make him happy.'
The doctrine of immortality rests upon human affection. We love; therefore, we wish to live.
The government, in my judgment, cannot create money; the government can give its note, like an individual, and the prospect of its being paid determines its value.
All the men of wealth should remember that everybody in a community has got, in some way, to be supported. I want to see them so that they can support themselves by their own labor.
Most people are Democrats because they hate something; most people are Republicans because they love something.
There may be another life, and if there is, the best way to prepare for it is by making somebody happy in this.
I hope there is another life, for I would like to see how things come out in this world when I am dead.
There are times when a falsehood well told bridges over quite a difficulty, but in the long run, you had better tell the truth, even if you swim the creek.
The American people do not like neutrality. They would rather a man were on the wrong side than on neither.
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