Carl Sandburg

"I believe that we should put emphasis on the best in man, not his worst."

"A person is smart. People are dumb."

"I learned that I could speak to people in my own way."

"There was a child went forth every day."

"One of the greatest monuments to the past is a language."

"The greatest invention of the American people is the four-day weekend."

"I like to hear a man talk who loves the ground he stands on."

"How sad and bad and mad it was—but then, how it was sweet."

"I have never written on any subject unless I believed that the subject was worth the wear and tear on the English language."

"The people know the truth, yet they choose to believe the lie."

"There are no times like the old times."

"I am the witness. I am the one who sees."

"Get a job where they need you—not where you need them."

"From my mother I learned the importance of prayer."

"I have always been against people dying."

"A liar begins with making small lies and then becomes a large liar."

"Leadership is the ability to get others to do what they don't want to do, and like it."

"War is a continuation of politics by other means."

"The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart, mind, and life."

"Out of the hunger of imagination comes the feast of achievement."

"A man once asked me what I thought was the greatest invention. I said: agriculture."

"To see oneself is to be terrified."

"I am grateful for all that I have lived."

"Democracy is the scaffold upon which we build worlds."

"A smile is the light in your window that tells people there is a caring, sharing person inside."

"The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it."

"Hog butcher for the world."

"I have walked in the night in the blue of the night."

"An old man dies. When he goes all his memories go with him."

"The anchor holds."