True line Quotes

Even if you’re on the right track,

you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

I perhaps ought to say that individually

I never was much interested in the Texas question.

I never could see much good to come of annexation,

inasmuch as they were already

a free republican people on our own model.

Act as if what you do makes a difference.

It does.

Everything has beauty,

but not everyone sees it.

Flowers... are a proud assertion

that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

One of the more difficult tasks for me as president

was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment

awarded by courts... to my surprise...

almost all cases which were pending had a social

and economic bias.

The mind is like an iceberg,

it floats with one

seventh of its bulk above water.

There are only two mistakes

one can make along the road

to truth; not going all

the way, and not starting.

Leisure is the mother of philosophy.

Whatever the cost of our libraries,

the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

You can't just ask customers what they want and

then try to give that to them.

There is another old poet whose name

I do not now remember who said,

'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

Look at how hard it was to get to where I am.

It doesn't make sense to give it up.

Common sense is not so common.

Speak the truth,

and all things alive or brute are vouchers,

and the very roots of the grass underground there,

do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

By what principle of original right is it that one

fiftieth or one

ninetieth of a great nation,

by calling themselves a State,

have the right to break up and ruin that nation

as a matter of original principle?

I’m a firm believer in the power of the individual.

Think left and think right and think low and think high.

Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

Anyone who doesn't take truth

seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.