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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| Difficult to Easy |
| Difficult if it is only d., it is done, 1183 we do at once, 1183 we do immediately, 1183 |
| Difficulties A man’s worst d. begin when he is able to do as he likes, 646 |
| Dig the grave of the United States, 2043 |
| Dignified quiet and d. simplicity, 108 |
| Dignity 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 |
| Diminished rights of every man are d., 219 |
| Diplomacy, 437–439 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 |
| Diplomatic definition of d. life—Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol, 1858 relations are merely practical conveniences, 627 |
| Diplomatist qualities of my ideal d., 439 |
| Disagrees then everybody d., 266 |
| Disarm Once upon a time all the animals in the Zoo decided that they would d., 440 |
| Disarmament, 128, 440 |
| Disaster tried to spare effort, and met d., 2063 |
| Discipline more than number, gives one army the superiority, 1182 neglect of d., 1182 one’s habits and efforts and wishes, 1289 |
| Discords free from ruinous d., 915 |
| Discrimination equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without d., 866 |
| racial d., 117 without d. because of sex, 550 |
| Disease combating the d., 847 enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, d., 516 |
| Diseases Publicity is … a remedy for social and industrial d., 1572 |
| Disenthrall ourselves, 1300 |
| Disgrace not d. my sacred arms, 100 |
| Dish-watery utterances, 1487 |
| Disobey our inner selves that hurt us when we d. it [truth], 1833 |
| Disparaged [Senate has been] unreasonably d., 296 |
| Dissent, 441–446 men who do not respect d., 444 we witness is a reaffirmation of faith in man, 1144 |
| Dissenters suppress the d., 1613 |
| Dissents series of protests and d., 1717 |
| Disservices One of the greatest d. you can do a man, 385 |
| Dissidents demands that d. are making of the universities, 153 |
| Dissolution germ of d. of our federal government, 941 then will begin the rot and d., 60 |
| Dissolve this Union, 1267 |
| Dissolved in a universal confusion, 1097 |
| District that is best represented, 283 |
| District of Columbia. See Washington, D.C. |
| Diversity make the world safe for d., 436 |
| Divide and conquer, 634 |
| Divided we ever have been, 1620 world d., 2036 |
| Divine human form d., 1464 |
| Divinest music has not been conceived, 111 |
| Divinity written … by the hand of the d. itself, 865 See also God |
| Dixie Covers D. like the dew, 1244 |
| Dixiecrats, 811 |
| Do 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 |
| Dr. Facts (Bernard M. Baruch), 1262 |
| Doctrine that d. believe and cling to, 105 |
| Does He who can, d., 1800 |
| Dog, 446 rather be a d. and bay at the moon than stay in the Senate, 295 stands highest as man’s friend, 90 |
| Dogmas obsolete d., 2095 of the quiet past, 1300 |
| Dogs as true of men as of d., 1129 No d. or Chinese allowed, 204 Sichaun d. bark at the sun, 203 |
| Dogwood never again shall the d. tree grow large enough to be used as a cross [legend of d.], 918 |
| Doing, 447–449 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 |
| Doing good, 460–463 |
| Dollar man before the d., 1068 Nothing can happen to the almighty d., 811 |
| Dominating and enslaving the whole world, 2040 |
| Domination cloaked itself, 2039 See also World domination |
| Domitian (Titus Flavius Augustus) (51–96 A.D.), 1457 |
| Done 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 |
| Donkey emaciated Austrian d., 2054 |
| Don’t give up the ship, 990 take No for an answer, 2088 |
| Doomed race which does not value trained intelligence is d., 505 |
| Doomsday, 464–466 |
| Doones are in the valley, 515 |
| Dorothy Q., 1090 |
| Double our numbers every 20 years, 92 |
| Double-cross that bridge when he comes to it, 1399 |
| Douglas, Stephen Arnold (1813–1861), 1110, 1313 |
| Douglas, William Orville (1898–1980), impeachment resolution, 893 |
| Drachma not make his estate a single d. greater, 1022 |
| Draft. See Military service. |
| Drag my soul down to the regions of darkness and despair, 1638 |
| Dream 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 |
| Dreamed I have always d. of a country, 267 |
| Dreamer The d. dies, but never dies the dream, 457 |
| Dreams, 467–466 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 |
| Dregs at bottom, 536 |
| Dreyfus, Alfred (1859–1935), 958 |
| Drinks wine d. the man, 34 |
| Drum hear the farthest d., 811 hear the most distant d., 811 you can muffle the d., 642 |
| Drum case, 446 |
| Drummer he hears a different d., 905 |
| Drunk My mother, d. or sober, 345 Winston, you are d., 2004 |
| Drunkards habitual d. as a class, 36 |
| Drunken men are [as apt] to think themselves sober enough, 2087 |
| Duck bird that walks like a d., 1278 |
| Due to the lack of experienced trumpeters, 455 |
| Dumb people are too damned d., 76 people criticize something they do not understand, 76 |
| Dungeon Himself is his own d., 563 |
| Duration of power, 765 |
| Durkin, Martin Patrick (1894–1955), 1510 |
| Dust 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 |
| Duties 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 |
| Duty, 467–474 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 |
| Duty-first, 58 |
| Dwarf add to the stature of a d., 142 |
| Dwelling make this thy d. place, 955 |
| Dying Words. See Last Words. |
| E, is for her eyes, 1226 |
| E pluribus unum, 1867 |
| Eagle 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 |
| Eagle has landed, 1737 |
| Early and provident fear, 595 |
| Earn Now you must e. them [the good things] again, 1605 over again for yourselves or it will not be yours, 666 |
| Earned everything I have got, 1564 |
| Ears having e., hear not, 1834 |
| Earth, 475–478 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 |
| Earth Day (1970), 543 |
| Earth Day (1971), 521 |
| East no E., no West, no North, no South, 267 |
| Eastward I go only by force, 657 to realize history, 658 |
| Easy You have lived the e. way, 1605 |
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