Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Abraham Lincoln
Related Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be reme... ABRAHAM LINCOLN Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration will be remem... ABRAHAM LINCOLN Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be reme... ABRAHAM LINCOLN The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generat... ABRAHAM LINCOLN Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history ABRAHAM LINCOLN Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. ABRAHAM LINCOLN If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL We cannot let the haters of this world define us. Or frighten us into no longer being ourselves. MARY E. DEMUTH I am not better than you because of my religion, color, culture, education, status, wealth, etc. I a... NAJWA ZEBIAN We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for ... MARCEL PROUST When you look at the inner workings of electrical things, you see wires. Until the current passes th... MOTHER TERESA We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take ... MARCEL PROUST Each of us will be remembered, either by those close to us or by those who have benefited from the g... DONALD PILLAI We can also allow our Soulmate to pass us by,without accepting him or her,or even noticing. Then we ... PAULO COELHO Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about fri... IAN HACKING We could say that the human race is a great coauthorship in which we are collaborating with God and ... WENDELL BERRY Every one of us is more beloved than we can possibly understand or imagine. Let us therefore be kind... ROBERT D. HALES When We have Patience in our minds and Love in our hearts, Nothing appears to be impossible or unrea... PHILIP T.M We are starting in the days where there is no discrimination, no distinction between one community a... MUHAMMAD ALI JINNAH Some people say it will take another miracle for this Congress and administration to find a way to w... TOM DASCHLE If I can paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, [the new government should be] of the Iraqis, by the Iraqis, fo... PAUL WOLFOWITZ . We are guided by outcomes, not ideology. We have a policy of principled realism, rooted in shared ... DONALD J. TRUMP The administration will take this charge very seriously. We have heard very clearly the concerns rai... CLAY LOWERY Until we know who we are and why we are here, no amount of success, fame, money, or pleasure will pr... JAMES C. DOBSON What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we wi... SAINT TERESA OF AVILA No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened fr... MARILYN FERGUSON I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you. In one way or another we ... AZAR NAFISI You know that feeling of invincibility you sometimes get, especially when young and testing yourself... JAY WOODMAN No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened fr... MARILYN FERGUSON ..either immediately or ultimately every dollar of government spending must be raised through a doll... HENRY HAZLITT And no one will remember us, who we were or what happened here. Sand will blow across Pacific Avenue... BILL CLEGG History tells us that any attempt by a country to realize its interests through the use of threat or... HU JINTAO We all are prisoners at one time or another in our lives, prisoners to ourselves or to the expectati... R.A. SALVATORE All of my peers died of AIDS, and I have no one to celebrate my past or my journey, or to help me pa... DAVID MIXNER If we put all of our eggs in one basket they will beat us another way. They can run the football, th... VICTOR ABIAMIRI If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and... WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN No matter how an individual views Satan, whether they believe that he is a real character or that he... NWAOCHA OGECHUKWU Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world -- or the ... JOHN F. KENNEDY When we pass through the procedures and processes we are supposed to pass through, the joy of His re... SUNDAY ADELAJA The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree ... SIRI HUSTVEDT Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portio... ROBERT F. KENNEDY Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portio... ROBERT KENNEDY Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portio... ROBERT F. KENNEDY Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portio... ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY No matter what kind of challenges or difficulties or painful situations you go through in your life,... ALANA STEWART The administration has shown itself a number of times capable of changing course and speed in respon... EUGENE FIDELL Life would be stunted and narrow if we could feel no significance in the world around us beyond that... SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown... PATRICK OVERTON We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and cho... RONALD REAGAN Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt... We shall not fail or falter; we shall... SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL What we define ourselves us can sometimes bring forth the best images of ourselves--or vice versa, w... ANDREW KENDALL In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hear... ALEXANDER MACLAREN In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hear... ALEXANDER MACLAREN No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one ... MARTHA BECK Abraham Lincoln quoted the Scriptures in an 1858 speech to the Illinois Republican Convention. He sa... JAMES C. DOBSON Feast of Andrew the Apostle This means that we do not know what are the limits of human history, ... LESSLIE NEWBIGIN We are all dying, every moment that passes of every day. That is the inescapable truth of this exist... R.A. SALVATORE Maybe its like you said before, all of us being cracked open. Like each of us starts out as a watert... JOHN GREEN What happens to you here is forever. Understand that in advance. We shall crush you down to the poin... GEORGE ORWELL Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one... JANE AUSTEN We will continue consultations with friends and allies in light of this latest move from the North K... LOU FINTOR The search for a God of our own understanding is one of the most important efforts we will undertake... NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS None of us is beyond the task of missions...The question is not whether or not we will be working to... FRANCIS CHAN Hunger allows no choice, To the citizens or the police; We must love one another or die W. H. AUDEN In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the beli... CLARENCE DARROW In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the beli... CLARENCE DARROW we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. CHARLES BUKOWSKI One of the joys we have in being human is in exercising our freedom to choose and to take each case ... GORDON ATKINSON Only when we eat up this planet will God give us another. We'll be remembered more for what we destr... CHUCK PALAHNIUK We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make... JOHN F. KENNEDY We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - or to ma... JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness ... MARCEL PROUST We are comfortable asking for this accommodation in light of the ongoing contribution our railroad m... MICHAEL SUSSMAN As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there... OVID As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust ther... ANDRE NORTON We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men. HERMAN MELVILLE Feast of Lawrence, Deacon at Rome, Martyr, 258 Unless we look upon ourselves as called to unity, ... F. D. MAURICE As time went on, we learned to arm ourselves in our different ways. Some of us with real guns, some ... COLSON WHITEHEAD We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead... EAMON DE VALERA It is a well known fact that Abraham Lincoln spent much of his spare time visiting wounded soldiers ... ERIC FONER We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. ... WALTER MOSLEY Reachable, near and not lost, there remained in the midst of the losses this one thing: language. It... PAUL CELAN This oath is the oath we all swear. Not to a god, or a master, or to the Ludu Achillea...but to our ... LESLEY LIVINGSTON Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to ... SUE MONK KIDD This lasting change can essentially be achieved in two ways: through suffering or through wisdom. Ei... NEBO D. LUKOVICH Every little gracious act adds to the quotient of grace in the world - how gracious can you be today... ANGIE KARAN If we become completely whole-hearted we will have love for all people and will seek in each person ... EBERHARD ARNOLD Congress can view this as a challenge or an opportunity. Will they honor the wisdom of DC's elected ... JODY M. HUCKABY The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we m... SUSANNA KEARSLEY Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or u... ALEXANDER HAMILTON The administration will push very hard to get the deal through the US Congress. This is the last psy... DENNIS KUX Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnogra... A.W. TOZER To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Let no one be discouraged by the belief that there is nothing one man or one woman can do against th... ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY No bullet can stop us now, we neither beg nor will we bow neither can be bought or sold BOB MARLEY Even though he was inside the house, I could still hear Vlad’s sardonic mutter of “Where’s a t... JEANIENE FROST This will be a good test for us. It will show we can play at home on the road and four games in seve... JAKE BAUER We have no intention of shutting down plants. We have always said there will be no redundancies or l... 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When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion. ABRAHAM LINCOLN My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is... ABRAHAM LINCOLN Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is w... ABRAHAM LINCOLN I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social ... ABRAHAM LINCOLN It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelit... ABRAHAM LINCOLN Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me ABRAHAM LINCOLN I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safe... ABRAHAM LINCOLN All I have learned, I learned from books. ABRAHAM LINCOLN No man is poor who has a Godly mother. ABRAHAM LINCOLN I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody. ABRAHAM LINCOLN The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a ca... ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am a slow walker, but I never walk back. ABRAHAM LINCOLN The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. ABRAHAM LINCOLN Achievement has no color ABRAHAM LINCOLN Tell me what brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other gen... ABRAHAM LINCOLN But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The br... ABRAHAM LINCOLN I cannot imaging anyone looking at the sky and denying God. ABRAHAM LINCOLN Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build o... ABRAHAM LINCOLN We must ask where we are and whither we are tending. ABRAHAM LINCOLN You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, ... ABRAHAM LINCOLN If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend. ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise. ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards. ABRAHAM LINCOLN Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. ABRAHAM LINCOLN We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. ... ABRAHAM LINCOLN When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and... ABRAHAM LINCOLN Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration will be remem... ABRAHAM LINCOLN A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor. ABRAHAM LINCOLN Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on... ABRAHAM LINCOLN With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. ABRAHAM LINCOLN The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them. ABRAHAM LINCOLN Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40. ABRAHAM LINCOLN The President to-night has a dream: He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who h... ABRAHAM LINCOLN I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advan... ABRAHAM LINCOLN I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. ABRAHAM LINCOLN I dream of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth. ABRAHAM LINCOLN If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and e... ABRAHAM LINCOLN I fear explanations explanatory of things explained. ABRAHAM LINCOLN Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators. ABRAHAM LINCOLN He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met. ABRAHAM LINCOLN When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him ru... ABRAHAM LINCOLN He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when the sentence was about to be p... ABRAHAM LINCOLN Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legi... ABRAHAM LINCOLN What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. ABRAHAM LINCOLN