K. Webster Quotes

A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever entered into the heads of men.

We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.

A national language is a band of national union.

The ring, the call, the surprise, the shock that you have out-of-doors - be always looking for the unexpected in nature, do not settle to a formula.

It is, Sir, as I have said, a small College, And yet, there are those who love it.

The more I study men, the more I realize that they are nothing in the world but boys grown too big to be spankable.

An immense effect may be produced by small powers wisely and steadily directed.

Nothing is easier than saying words. Nothing is harder than living them day after day.

I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.

Almost all the civil liberty now enjoyed in the world owes its origin to the principles of the christian religion.

The records of every great religion show the presence of such Supermen, so full of the Divine Life that again and again they have been taken as the very representatives of God Himself.

Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.

The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action... the soul was never put into the body to stand still.

In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.

Everybody likes a few surprises; it's a perfectly natural human craving.

Mr. President, I wish to speak today, not as a Massachusetts man, nor as a Northern man, but as an American. I speak for the preservation of the Union. Hear me for my cause.

Woman to man Is either a God or a wolfe.

There is always room at the top.

It seems to me that a man who can think straight along for forty-seven years without changing a single idea ought to be kept in a cabinet as a curiosity.

But the reasonableness of this command to obey parents, is clear, and easily understood by children, even when quite young.

Do you not weep? Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out. The element of water moistens the earth, But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens.

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

Like every other place, I guess, Kansas City was quite a different city when I was a youngster there. They had quite a few clubs, and we had what we used to call jam sessions every night.

The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way.

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

Human beings will generally exercise power when they can get it, and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular governments under pretense of public safety.

The daily life is so wearisome; yet duty lies that way.

Each day has its own individuality of color.

Put variety in white.

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.

Do not let it look as if you reasoned too much. Painting must be impulsive to be worth while.

Anything under the sun is beautiful if you have the vision it is the seeing of the thing that makes it so.

Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money.

If you try all different styles that are in vogue, I think you con yourself. Me, I just stick by my guns; I don't want to play out of another man's bag.

No power but Congress can declare war, but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own authority may make such military movements as must bring on war?

See, a good habit makes a child a man, Whereas a bad one makes a man a beast.

A sketch has charm because of its truth - not because it is unfinished.

If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.

By having the big lines of the composition going out of the canvas, your imagination can wander beyond the edge. It will make it seem part of a large composition.

Study continuously, developing yourself into a better person, more sensitive to things in nature. Spend years in getting ready.

I am going to pretend that all life is just a game which I must play as skilfully and fairly as I can. If I lose, I am going to shrug my shoulders and laugh—also if I win.

It is by surmounting difficulties, not by sinking under them that we discover our fortitude.

Cowardly dogs bark loudest.

All life is evolving, for evolution is God's law; and man grows slowly and steadily along with the rest.

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

Do studies, not pictures. Know when you are licked - start another. Be alive, stop when your interest is lost.

As a man I'd been a cool customer. As a woman I was a hot tamale.

If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him.