#lincoln

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I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.


Abraham Lincoln


#constitution #hour-of-peril #lincoln #respect

The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession.


Abraham Lincoln


#atheism #bible

I am a Ford, not a Lincoln.


Gerald R. Ford


#ford #i #i am #lincoln

The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a modern book-reading, movie-going, television-watching, legend-loving American public conditioned to think of him as one of the presidential giants on the order of Washington and Lincoln.


Russell Baker


#american #american public #commentators #conditioned #down

I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David.


Luke Ford


#abraham lincoln #books #churchill #david #heroes

I received orders from Congress to proceed to Charleston in South Carolina, for the purpose of Co'operating with General Lincoln in the defense of that Capitol.


Abraham Whipple


#carolina #charleston #congress #defense #general

There are but two types of men who desire war: those who haven’t the slightest intention of fighting it themselves, and those who haven’t the slightest idea what it is. … Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.


Seth Grahame-Smith


#vampires #war #death

Linc, I have no idea what you're talking about. I actually thought that was kind of unbelievable as far as kisses go." I was glad we were in the dark and he couldn't see me blushing. He made a sound somewhere between a sigh and a growl of frustration. He pulled me in for a hug, which I fell into, feeling crushed. I had the strangest feeling we were stealing this moment and no matter how tightly I held on, it wouldn't help. Lincoln's next words were soft and perhaps not even meant for me, but they burned their way right into my soul. "Did you ever think we would be anything other than unbelievable?


Jessica Shirvington


#jessica-shirvington #lincoln-wood #love #the-violet-eden-chapters #violet-eden

Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh.


Adlai E. Stevenson II


#lincoln #losing #elections

The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.


James McGreevey


#american #american history #arc #civil #civil liberties