I'm a proud American - becoming a citizen in 1988 was one of the most profoundly moving occasions in my life; I'm a former Texan and a recent Californian.


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ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goe...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
You may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven; you may drag my soul down to...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I take it that it is best for all to leave each man free to acquire property as fast as he can. Some...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
If people see the Capitol going on, it is a sign we intend the Union shall go on.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
What has once happened, will invariably happen again, when the same circumstances which combined to ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I think very much of the people, as an old friend said he thought of woman. He said when he lost his...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Has it popular sovereignty not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to m...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to preve...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Gentlemen, suppose all the property you were worth was in gold, and you had put it in the hands of B...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I know that the LORD is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer th...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about hi...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Our cause, then, must be intrusted to, and conducted by, its own undoubted friendsthose whose hands ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
This is a world of compensation; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those w...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject any thing, is not whether it have any evil in it...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many y...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I am superstitious. I have scarcely known a party, preceding an election, to call in help from the n...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I was on the abutment.
ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER
I got off the abutment and walked towards my office.
ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER
Yes, sir, I was in the processing room watching them actually process the film.
ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER
Yes, sir, a patrol car came and took me down to a station where they were trying to develop films, b...
ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER
Then I heard another shot which hit him right in the head, over here, and his head practically opene...
ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER
I couldn't tell if any frames were removed. Seen as a whole it shows that I have seen. Seeing yo...
ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER
He leaned about the same way in falling towards Jacqueline, forward, down towards the bottom of the ...
ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER
I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels.
ABRAHAM WHIPPLE
I received orders from Congress to proceed to Charleston in South Carolina, for the purpose of Co...
ABRAHAM WHIPPLE
The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus ...
ABRAHAM ROBINSON
Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn ...
ABRAHAM POLONSKY
You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY
If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY
A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago ...
ABRAHAM POLONSKY
A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY
I'll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The...
ABRAHAM POLONSKY
Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?
ABRAHAM POLONSKY
Money has no moral opinions.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY
Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star wh...
ABRAHAM PAIS
The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up und...
ABRAHAM PAIS
One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to...
ABRAHAM PAIS
One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to kn...
ABRAHAM PAIS
I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I c...
ABRAHAM PAIS
Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one meth...
ABRAHAM MASLOW
If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away,...
ABRAHAM MASLOW
With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-J...
ABRAHAM MASLOW
I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me,...
ABRAHAM MASLOW
Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.
ABRAHAM MASLOW
We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the go...
ABRAHAM MASLOW