Will Quotes

If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.

Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying.

When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.

I've been here before and will come again, but I'm not going this trip through.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.