William Herndon Quotes

Lincoln, answering friends who advised him to seek protection against assassination: "If they kill me the next man will be just as bad for them. In a country like this, where our habits are simple, and must be, assassination is always possible, and will come if they are determined upon it.

William Herndon

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• There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Long
  • Achieve
  • Determined

• When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

  

  Ralph Bellamy
  • Life
  • Great
  • Country

• I have been fighting climate change for two decades, and people often ask me how I remain hopeful in the face of extreme weather and grim forecasts. The answer is simple: I see countless solutions spreading across the nation and across the world. But we need more investment.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • World
  • Change

• One of the things I like best about Netflix is that they make projects like 'Beasts of No Nation.' It's a film about a reality in an African country where kids were being used to be soldiers in a war. And it made so much sense to me as a citizen of the world.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • World
  • Country
  • Kids

• I feel like I've got a pretty good presence online through Instagram and Facebook. I just keep it simple.

  

  Flume
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Simple

• The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • World
  • Country
  • History

• I was definitely very much a country boy.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Country
  • Boy
  • Country Boy

• I came not to your glorious shores to enjoy a happy rest - I came not to gather triumphs of personal distinction, but as a humble petitioner, in my country's name, as its freely chosen constitutional leader, to entreat your generous aid.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Country
  • Happy
  • Rest

• I love to add '90s trends mixed with modern day pieces I find along my many travels. Like these cool fun hats from Europe I have. I love to collect different ones from every country. I have them from London to Brussels.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Country
  • Fun
  • Day

• I can only tell you that eggs, country ham, biscuits, a pot of coffee, a morning paper, a table by the window overlooking the veranda and putting green, listening to the idle chitchat of competitors, authors, wits and philosophers, hasn't exactly been a torturous way to begin each day at the Masters all these years.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Country
  • Day
  • Morning

• Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Country
  • Crime
  • Brutality

• I am emphatically against the privatization of Social Security. It is going to hurt millions of American women, American families and ultimately the whole country.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Women
  • Country
  • American

• A chief of station is the head of all intelligence operations in any given country.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Country
  • Intelligence
  • Head

• I love jazz and pop rock and country. I grew up listening to Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Def Leppard, AC/DC, Anne Murray - if I hear something really great... I want to be a part of it.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Great
  • Country
  • Love

• The key in controlling my asthma is pretty simple: I have a good professional diagnosis, and I follow my doctor's instructions closely. You need to acknowledge both.

  

  Gary Valentine
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Simple

• When Bangladesh refused to renew my passport, I used U.N. travel documents. You can't disown your country.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Country
  • You
  • Travel

• There will be a lot of competitive and strong companies coming here and even though Kosovo is a small country that undoubtedly has a lot to offer to global trade; one of our main interests is to expose it to the world market.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • World
  • Country
  • Strong

• The entire process seems simple and natural, i.e., possesses the naturalness of a shallow rationalism.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Simple

• In half a lifetime, many Americans have seen their God dethroned, their heroes defiled, their culture polluted, their values assaulted, their country invaded, and themselves demonized as extremists and bigots for holding on to beliefs Americans have held for generations.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • God
  • Country
  • Culture

• The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the country.

  

  Jon Meacham
  • Country
  • America
  • Political

• A country that has been through as much as Vietnam has to have some crazy music somewhere.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Country
  • Crazy
  • Vietnam

• I think I just really understand what it is to feel like you don't fit in, within your society, within your world, within your family, within whatever. I've always felt like an odd duck so I really understood that.

  

  Anya Taylor-Joy
  • World
  • Family
  • Society

• Lincoln, answering friends who advised him to seek protection against assassination: "If they kill me the next man will be just as bad for them. In a country like this, where our habits are simple, and must be, assassination is always possible, and will come if they are determined upon it.

  

  William Herndon
  • Country
  • Simple
  • Protection