Abraham Lincoln Quotes
The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you, and are as completely your masters, as you are the master of your own negroes.
Abraham Lincoln
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This is why I have always said that it would be better if Muslims were poor.
Abu Bakar Bashir
I have my problems with 'Singles'. To me, 'Singles' is the least successful of the movies I've been lucky enough to make.
Cameron Crowe
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Saint Augustine
A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
Kage Baker
I've noticed that, with many of the authors I like, I tend to think I would dislike them as human beings or that there'd be a healthy amount of debate if I ever did meet them.
Laura Marling
Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
Kate Williams
Life is our dictionary.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
Mahalia Jackson
What I'm asking for is hard. It's easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn't possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don't matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.
Barack Obama
In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy.
Hannah Arendt
The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.
Bernard Crick
The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you, and are as completely your masters, as you are the master of your own negroes.
Abraham Lincoln
