Encouraging Robert E. Lee to take a job as college president, "You might be presenting to the world in such a position an example of quiet usefulness and gentle patriotism.


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Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.
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I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.
NELSON MANDELA
There is no such thing as part freedom.
NELSON MANDELA
Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.
NELSON MANDELA
Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challen...
NELSON MANDELA
It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.
NELSON MANDELA
Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.
NELSON MANDELA
Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's ve...
NELSON MANDELA
If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United State...
NELSON MANDELA
I generally unwind by having dinner with close friends.
NELSON DEMILLE
I believe that all roads lead to the same place - and that is wherever all roads lead to.
WILLIE NELSON
If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Tw...
NELSON MANDELA
There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident...
NELSON MANDELA
Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
NELSON MANDELA
The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake.
NELSON BOSWELL
I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that...
NELSON ALGREN
And as far as guitars go, I loved Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West's stuff.
WILLIE NELSON
There is no doubt that many expensive national projects may add to our prestige or serve science. Bu...
NELSON ROCKEFELLER
The fundamental question for the United States is how it can cooperate to help meet the basic needs ...
NELSON ROCKEFELLER
Maybe this Watergate is like the Old Testament. It was visited upon us and maybe were going to benef...
NELSON ROCKEFELLER
Government has an obligation not to inhibit the collection and dissemination of news. Im convinced t...
NELSON ROCKEFELLER
They just wrestled up to their potential.
AL NELSON
It's the best thing we ever did. We are really proud of what we do. We feel we are part of a team wi...
AL NELSON
It's as important to know what not to say to them.
AL NELSON
It meant a lot to us to have friends with us at a time like that.
AL NELSON
It could be an hour or it could be seven hours. Every situation is different.
AL NELSON
Winners are different. They're a different breed of cat.
BYRON NELSON
I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up ...
BEN NELSON
It's pretty much the same as spray paint. I think a lot of the student groups think it's the same as...
ALAN NELSON
Disparities in the health care delivered to racial and ethnic minorities are real and are associated...
ALAN NELSON
The real challenge lies not in debating whether disparities exist, because the evidence is overwhelm...
ALAN NELSON
Disparities in the health care delivered to racial and ethnic minorities are real and are associated...
ALAN NELSON
It is a neat deal so people don't drive their car. We will have three drivers on New Year's Eve, and...
ALAN NELSON
I felt some balls were dropped. We wanted ... to make people know it was largely their fault.
ALAN NELSON
There was definitely a flaw in leadership.
ALAN NELSON
We intend to vigorously defend the charges and we deny all of the allegations.
ALAN NELSON
Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mis...
KNUTE NELSON
Women's battle for financial equality has barely been joined, much less won. Society still tradition...
PAULA NELSON
Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's...
PAULA NELSON
Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his...
HORATIO NELSON
... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can lov...
NELSON ALGREN
I'm not sure what he was doing.
AARON NELSON
We're not relating it to compensation or anything in particular. It's definitely resolving. He looks...
AARON NELSON
Aaron had a tough match, but he came back in the consolation rounds.
AARON NELSON