When the country is at war, you need to support the president.
Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.
To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all mean are created free and equal.
The Biblical language was so deeply embedded in the great man's mind that it became his normal way of speaking.
I walked out of Spielberg's 'Lincoln' having such a thirst for more. It used such a microscopic albeit enormous event in American history. It used such a small piece of his presidency to illustrate him as a president through the lens of that event.
Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs. For my own people, it was important to imagine him as the Great Emancipator, the Moses w...
Abraham Lincoln because he was a man filled with great compassion who believed that all men are created free and equal, and was not afraid to stand on that platform. The way Lincoln lived his life has served me well in mine.
If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
We belong to the camp of peace. We believe in peace. We believe that our one God wishes us to live in peace and wishes peace upon us, for these are His teachings to all the followers of the three great monotheistic religions, the Children of Abraham.
It'd be funny if one of them was called Gavin. Funny but irrelevant.
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Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
A million dollars? For a cow?
I marched to the head Elf. “Where’s the frog?
...anticipation of happiness can sometimes be as gratifying as its consummation.
Slaves do not have the bravery of free men.
So who do I want to be tomorrow?
Life and light will not let me be.
