12 Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes for You to Enjoy

Stephen Vincent Benet

American Poet

Born: Jul 22, 1898

Died: Mar 13, 1943

Day Good Man Men Will You

Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman

You call my candidate a horse thief, and I call yours a lunatic, and we both of us know it's just till election day. It's an American custom, like eating corn on the cob. And, afterwards, we settle down quite peaceably and agree we've got a pretty good country - until next election. Stephen Vincent Benet

Good Day You Election Country Down Thief Corn Settle Pretty Eating Pretty Good Both Horse Like Know Until Call Got Till American Quite Candidate Just Afterwards Custom Us Election Day Next Next Election Yours Agree Lunatic

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways. Stephen Vincent Benet

Life Day Lost Ways Thousand Minute Small Dying Dragging

We can no longer take our own way of life for granted - we know that it may be challenged. And we know this, too - and know it ever more deeply - we know that freedom and democracy are not just big words mouthed by orators but the rain and the wind and the sun, the air and the light by which we breathe and live. Stephen Vincent Benet

Life Freedom Democracy Rain Words Light Wind Big Own Orator Live Too Our Air Way Sun More Take Longer Know May Just Which Breathe Granted Challenged Ever Deeply

Let us be bold enough and free enough to follow the great examples - the men of good will and honor who put aside little ways and petty hatreds to build the American dream. Stephen Vincent Benet

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. Stephen Vincent Benet

Wisdom Thought Power Had Because

A man with a mouth like a mastiff, a brow like a mountain, and eyes like burning antracite - that was Dan'l Webster in his prime. Stephen Vincent Benet

Man Eyes Mouth Brow Webster Prime Like His Mountain Burning

Yes, Dan'l Webster's dead - or, at least, they buried him. But every time there's a thunderstorm around Marshfield, they say you can hear his rolling voice in the hollows of the sky. Stephen Vincent Benet

Time You Sky Every Every Time Say Webster Voice Thunderstorm Dead Him Around Least Hear His Yes Rolling Buried They Say

We cannot be a house divided - divided in will, divided in interest, divided in soul. We cannot be a house divided and live. Stephen Vincent Benet

Soul Will Live We Cannot Divided House Cannot Interest

Let each one of us say, 'I am an American. I intend to stay an American. I will do my best to wipe from my heart hate, rancor and political prejudice. I will sustain my government. And, through good days or bad, I will try to serve my country.' Stephen Vincent Benet

Government Best Good Heart Hate Political Try Will Country Say Bad Stay Through Wipe Days Am Intend American Sustain Us Prejudice Each Each One Serve

You can't do business with a man who doesn't know the meaning of a contract. You can't do business with a firm who swears they'll do one thing one day and does just the opposite the next. You can't do business with a company who takes your goods on a cash basis and then pays you off in bum harmonicas. Stephen Vincent Benet

Day You Man Business One Day One Thing Cash Firm Takes Goods Know Does Opposite Off Bum Contract Just Meaning Meaning Of Then Next Your Who Pays Company Thing Basis

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