410 ordspråk av Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln föddes den
February 12th 1809 och dog den 15 April
1865 - (1861-65), who brought about the emancipation of the slaves.
Mer info via Google eller Bing. "We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued. The slaves were undeniably a element of strength to those who had their service, and we must decide whether that element should be with us or "against us". Emancipation, will strike at the heart of the rebellion."
Said to Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles.
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[Bush also defended the] Mission Accomplished ... People make a big deal out of it. It was not a mistake to go to the carrier. And there was certainly no intention to say that this was over; quite the contrary. If people had listened to what I said, I said there is more hard work to do. And there is hard work to do.
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[I feel] somewhat like the boy in Kentucky who stubbed his toe while running to see his sweetheart. The boy said he was too big to cry, and far too badly hurt to laugh.
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[Smiley writes that upon meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of] Uncle Tom?s Cabin, ... So this is the little lady who made this big war.
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[That was the speech -- delivered under a banner reading] Mission Accomplished ... Major combat operations in Iraq have ended.
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A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.
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A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely beautiful when her lips are closed
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A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have
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A house divided against itself cannot stand.
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A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.
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A lawyer's advice is his stock and trade.
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A lawyer's time and advice are his stock in trade
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A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people
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A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability.
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a new birth of freedom.
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