Poems List

We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things -- the teacher of all truth.

Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.

They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.

I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.

Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life.

If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.

A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.

Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

Well, as you know, there are many things in life that are not fair, that wealthy people can afford and poor people cant. But I dont believe that the Federal Government should take action to try to make these opportunities exactly equal, particularly when there is a moral factor involved.

I know that's a secret, for it's whispered everywhere.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

According to Gandhi, the seven sins are wealth without works, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principle. Well, Hubert Humphrey may have sinned in the eyes of God, as we all do, but according to those definitions of Gandhis, it was Hubert Humphrey without sin.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

Our decision about energy will test the character of the American people and the ability of the President and the Congress to govern this Nation. This difficult effort will be the moral equivalent of war, except that we will be uniting our efforts to build and not to destroy.

I thought a lot about our Nation and what I should do as President. And Sunday night before last, I made a speech about two problems of our countryenergy and malaise.