True line Quotes

Why are we,

as a nation so obsessed with foreign things?

Is it a legacy of our colonial years?

We want foreign television sets.

We want foreign shirts.

We want foreign technology.

Why this obsession with everything imported?

Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent

upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil

and in the proportionable amount of the same

which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.

Let a hundred flowers bloom;

let a hundred schools of thought contend.

America was not built on fear.

America was built on courage,

on imagination,

and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day;

a movement is only people moving.

Being powerful is like being a lady.

If you have to tell people you are,

you aren’t.

I would rather die than

do something which I know

to be a sin, or to be

against God's will.

Things do not happen.

Things are made to happen

I want my art to reflect truth.

Our unity is our strength,

and our diversity is our power.

I love deadlines.

I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Predicting rain doesn’t count.

Building arks does.

The general idea of the rich helping

the poor is important.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

A nation will not survive morally or economically

when so few have so much,

while so many have so little.

I have said a hundred times,

and I have no inclination to take it back,

that I believe there is no right,

and ought to be no inclination in the people

of the free States to enter into the slave States,

and to interfere with the question of slavery at all.

I have said that always.

Your work is to discover your world

and then with all your heart give yourself to it.

We are all

born ignorant

but one must work hard

to remain stupid

From each according to his ability,

to each according to his needs.

All you need is the plan,

the road map, and

the courage to press

on to your destination.