Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
Difficult to Easy
if it is only d., it is done, 1183
we do at once, 1183
we do immediately, 1183
A man’s worst d. begin when he is able to do as he likes, 646
the grave of the United States, 2043
quiet and d. simplicity, 108
assaults upon human d., 85
each person respects the feelings and the d. … of his neighbor, 54
inferior in eloquence, science and d., 279
solid rock of human d., 1693
rights of every man are d., 219
patriotic art of lying for one’s country, 437
qualities of an ideal d., 439
shall proceed always frankly and in the public view, 1027
definition of d. life—Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol, 1858
relations are merely practical conveniences, 627
qualities of my ideal d., 439
then everybody d., 266
Once upon a time all the animals in the Zoo decided that they would d., 440
tried to spare effort, and met d., 2063
more than number, gives one army the superiority, 1182
neglect of d., 1182
one’s habits and efforts and wishes, 1289
free from ruinous d., 915
equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without d., 866
without d. because of sex, 550
combating the d., 847
enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, d., 516
Publicity is … a remedy for social and industrial d., 1572
ourselves, 1300
not d. my sacred arms, 100
utterances, 1487
our inner selves that hurt us when we d. it [truth], 1833
[Senate has been] unreasonably d., 296
men who do not respect d., 444
we witness is a reaffirmation of faith in man, 1144
suppress the d., 1613
series of protests and d., 1717
One of the greatest d. you can do a man, 385
demands that d. are making of the universities, 153
germ of d. of our federal government, 941
then will begin the rot and d., 60
this Union, 1267
in a universal confusion, 1097
that is best represented, 283
See Washington, D.C.
make the world safe for d., 436
and conquer, 634
we ever have been, 1620
world d., 2036
human form d., 1464
music has not been conceived, 111
written … by the hand of the d. itself, 865
See also God
Covers D. like the dew, 1244
all the good you can, 452
ask not just what government will do for me, 771
Ask not what your country can do for you, 769
ask what you can do for your country, 769
being constrained to do what we ought not to will, 1055
difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes, 646
don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses, 895
for a community of people whatever they need to have done, 780
for my city, 767
justly, and to love mercy, 947
nothing, 560
Presidency … offers a chance to do something, 1501
so much for so many on so little, 449
something, 899
State, has a right to do exactly as it pleases, 1761
that which befits a king, 956
that which is just, 956
to ourselves what we have done unto others, 1612
To see what is right and not to do it, 1635
the very best I know how, 110
watch what we do instead of what we say, 9
well if well done by, 79
what are you going to do with all these things, 51
what can I do for myself, 771
what we can do for our country in return, 768
What we do belongs to what we are, 1676
what you can do for your country, 766
what your country can do for you, 766
your own thing, 447
that d. believe and cling to, 105
He who can, d., 1800
rather be a d. and bay at the moon than stay in the Senate, 295
stands highest as man’s friend, 90
obsolete d., 2095
of the quiet past, 1300
as true of men as of d., 1129
No d. or Chinese allowed, 204
Sichaun d. bark at the sun, 203
never again shall the d. tree grow large enough to be used as a cross [legend of d.], 918
Be not weary in well d., 450
for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment, 1983
for them what they could and should do for themselves, 1117
instrument of d., 1679
Joy’s soul lies in the d., 12
man before the d., 1068
Nothing can happen to the almighty d., 811
and enslaving the whole world, 2040
cloaked itself, 2039
See also World domination
the best you can, 109
do to ourselves what we have d. unto others, 1612
gets things d. he wants d., 1400
a hundred things / You have not dreamed of, 603
if it is only difficult, it is d., 1183
it couldn’t be d., 1841
it ourselves, 1020
make undone whatever hath been d., 1291
so much with so little, 2060
tackled the thing / That couldn’t be d., 1841
they would have been d. by others, 1679
Things won are d., 12
what in hell have you d. for me lately, 1897
what our country has d. for each of us, 768
what we have d. for others and the world remains, 887
What we have d. for ourselves alone dies with us, 887
emaciated Austrian d., 2054
give up the ship, 990
take No for an answer, 2088
race which does not value trained intelligence is d., 505
are in the valley, 515
our numbers every 20 years, 92
that bridge when he comes to it, 1399
not make his estate a single d. greater, 1022
my soul down to the regions of darkness and despair, 1638
American D., 463
America’s everlasting, living d., 67
dare to d., 54
fade like a d., 1220
freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a d., 463
I have a d., 462
never dies the d., 457
Nothing happens unless first a d., 464
Out of a misty d., 460
realization of the American d., 220
republic is a d., 464
that one day this nation will rise up, 462
then [our path] closes / Within a d., 460
things that never were; and I say “Why not?” 465
to d. the impossible d., 459
What happens to a d. deferred?, 461
I have always d. of a country, 267
The d. dies, but never dies the dream, 457
believe in their d., 2096
confluence of d., 1866
live his d.—not in fear, but in hope, 54
of these earlier generations of Americans, 621
Say nevermore / That d. are fragile things, 457
will begin to take on flesh and reality, 621
at bottom, 536
wine d. the man, 34
hear the farthest d., 811
hear the most distant d., 811
you can muffle the d., 642
he hears a different d., 905
My mother, d. or sober, 345
Winston, you are d., 2004
habitual d. as a class, 36
men are [as apt] to think themselves sober enough, 2087
bird that walks like a d., 1278
to the lack of experienced trumpeters, 455
people are too damned d., 76
people criticize something they do not understand, 76
Himself is his own d., 563
of power, 765
dry d., secure of change, 377
earthly frame has crumbled into d., 1752
long years that … turn the growing spirit back to d., 2099
of centuries, 1753
and responsibilities of citizenship, 57
of life, 1098
one of the high d. of a good citizen, 1009
public d., 1764
teach new d., 1838
And to my d. haste, 470
Do your d. in all things, 469
he always declares that it is his d., 472
his [the President’s] d. to do anything that the needs of the Nation demanded, 1505
is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, 1295
know our d. better than we discharge it, 471
neglected in its season, 1830
of being happy, 473
of government to make its citizens happy, 786
of governments, 776
of the persons whom they have appointed, 468
of those serving the people in public place, 796
performing a public d., 467
Science of Government it is my d. to study, 481
strenuous performance of d., 11
then is the sublimest word in our language, 469
to accomplish humble tasks, 2029
to find ourselves, 474
to give him the full rights of an American, 883
to make money and still more money, 1207
to oppose him [the President] when he serves it badly, 1506
to sacrifice his repose, his pleasure, his satisfactions, to theirs [constituents], 280
to support him [the President] when he serves the United States well, 1506
to tell the truth about the President, 1506
which you must fulfill, 1605
writer’s d. is to write about these things, 1145
add to the stature of a d., 142
make this thy d. place, 955
flies in the air as well as a little gnat, 1744
has ceased to scream, 1913
not the oyster, is the emblem of America, 70
has landed, 1737
and provident fear, 595
Now you must e. them [the good things] again, 1605
over again for yourselves or it will not be yours, 666
everything I have got, 1564
having e., hear not, 1834
as it truly is, 1742
as we now see it, 1742
belongs as much to those who are to come after us, 1608
belongs in usufruct to the living, 1298
but cloaks your heaven, 1467
Cultivators of the e., 29
gets its price for what E. gives us, 2072
God has lent us the e. for our life, 1608
is a great entail, 1608
is degenerate in these latter days, 456
is heaven, and we are gods, 1132
last, best hope of e., 1701
make room upon the e. for honest men, 665
materials of wealth in the e., 478
no security on this e., 1672
on e. peace, 1315
our fragile craft, 477
peace on e., good will toward men, 662
people who know about the e., 541
riders on the e. together, 1742
shall slumber, lapt in universal law, 2038
slipped the surly bonds of e., 603
uses up the fat and greenery of the e., 833
no E., no West, no North, no South, 267
I go only by force, 657
to realize history, 658
You have lived the e. way, 1605