in Quotes & Aphorisms (Hope)
We hope all danger may be overcome; but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous.
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Citations by Abraham Lincoln
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
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Broken by it, I, too, may be; bow to it I never will. The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me.
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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.
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I have now come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, i can say, for one, that i have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
Written on friday march 9, 1832
Posted by: Edoardo Grimoldi
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
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Posted by: Edoardo Grimoldi
Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.
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