Abraham Lincoln Quotes

In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend it'.

Abraham Lincoln

War
Heaven

Quotes to Explore

Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.

Ian Anderson
- Fans
- Generation
- Late
Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

Orison Swett Marden
- Eye
- Spring
- Obstacles
I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.

Tea Obreht
- Up
- Remember
- Places
I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.

Natalie Portman
- Work
- Feels
- Impression
Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.

Cameron van der Burgh
- Career
- Never
- Swimming
For all of the continued awareness of systemic violence and oppression, there isn't a lot of talk about that psychological toll of racism, at least in white circles and white media.

Tavi Gevinson