Abraham Lincoln Quotes
If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.
Lincoln, Abraham. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Edited by Roy P. Basler, vol. 2, Rutgers University Press, 1953, p. 283.
After being surrounded by the Germans for seven days at what would later be called the Battle of the Bulge, a German officer notified the Americans that they would accept their surrender. McAuliffe’s one word response summed up the resolve of the Americans who were surrounded. The Americans managed to hold the line and defeat the German’s last major offensive of World War II.
She had asked Woodward when all the details about Richard Nixon and Watergate would finally be known. Woodward replied, “Never.”
O’Reilly claimed that across the United States schools were driving the celebration of Christmas out of the schools and that some schools had forced students to sing Silent Night with new, less religious words. Letterman’s instinct was right. O’Reilly, not known for his carful research of what he stated, had taken a single incident and turned it into a alleged national attack on Christianity.
Abraham Lincoln was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy.
