Abraham Lincoln Quotes
In my devotion to the Union I hope I am behind no man in the nation.
Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, 16th President of the United States (Republican, IL), Speech, New York City, February 20, 1861
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Defending his opposition to a League of Nations. He was instrumental in preventing the United States from joining the League of Nations which President Wilson had worked so hard to create. The Senate never ratified the treaty which Wilson had signed.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
Russell despised the Commission Chairman, Chief Justice Earl Warren and had refused to serve. Johnson changed Russell's mind. See Richard B. Russell.
1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor
This is another example of a common practice amongst dictators and extremists of the Right and the Left. First they define “Patriotic” as accepting and following their norms, politics, regulations or laws. Then they define out any dissidents as not bona fide citizens of the nation. In the next step, the lack of citizenship and patriotism allows imprisonment, torture and even death at times. It is one thing to accuse dissidents as being citizens in opposition to the existing government; it is quite another to define them as no longer a citizen who is entitled to the respect or rights of a citizen. This was typical of both Soviet Communism in the 1950s and the followers of Senator Joseph p. McCarthy in the United States.
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.
