True line Quotes

America will start winning again,

winning like never before.

I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835.

It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it.

It will be the greatest disappointment of my life

if I don't go out with Halley's Comet.

The Almighty has said,

no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks;

they came in together, they must go out together.'

To improve is to change;

to be perfect is to change often.

Without leaps of imagination,

or dreaming,

we lose the excitement of possibilities.

Dreaming,

after all,

is a form of planning.

The leading rule for the lawyer,

as for the man of every calling,

is diligence.

Experience teaches you to take responsibility for your actions.

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress;

therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken

until after they shall have deliberated

upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

Believe in yourself! have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

I have always been an old

line Henry Clay Whig.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

I fear not the man

who has practiced 10,000 kicks once,

but I fear the man

who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day,

if I did not laugh I should die.

This country,

with its institutions,

belongs to the people who inhabit it.

Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government,

they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it,

or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

I understand a ship to be made for the carrying

and preservation of the cargo,

and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo,

it should never be abandoned.

This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless

it fails and the possibility of its preservation shall cease to exist,

without throwing passengers and cargo overboard.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing,

but in rising up every time we fail.

It was the experience of mystery

even if mixed with fear

that engendered religion.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

I'm always asked 'What's the secret to success?' But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.