True line Quotes

I have always been an old

line Henry Clay Whig.

A man should look for what is,

and not for what he thinks should be.

We’ve always been shameless

about stealing great ideas.

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?

The best thinking has been done in solitude.

The worst has been done in turmoil.

Elegance is the only beauty that never fades.

Fame comes with pressure,

but I stay focused.

Every once in a while, I get mad.

'The Lorax' came out of my being angry.

The ecology books I'd read were dull...

In 'The Lorax,' I was out to attack

what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might.

When we realize the value of each soul,

we will act differently.

Count your age by friends,

not years.

Count your life by smiles,

not tears.

Among the friends of Union,

there is great diversity of sentiment

and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.

When you reach the

end of your rope,

tie a knot in it and

hang on.

I’m not a person who likes to be told what to do.

How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.

The charm of fishing is that

it is the pursuit of what is

elusive but attainable

a perpetual series of

occasions for hope.

If men were angels,

no government would be necessary.

Sometimes it’s the journey

that teaches you a lot about your destination.

Few things are harder to put up with than

the annoyance of a good example.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

It is not my nature,

when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles

the oppression of tyranny to make

their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens;

but rather would I do all in my power to raise

the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.