Today is a king in disguise.
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
If you shoot at a king you must kill him.
Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.
The only reward of virtue is virtue the only way to have a friend is to be one.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
It is tact that is golden, not silence.
In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.
Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Dear to us are those who love us… but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.
Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.
Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?
The remedy is worse than the disease.
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man walking into the little booth with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. No amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of that point.
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large mattertis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.
