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The thing we all have to understand to put these last two years in focus, is that liberals in this country care more about whether European leaders like us than they do about whether terrorists are killing us.
Rush Limbaugh1951–2021
- Politics
I don’t intellectually understand you people. I don’t understand your hate, I don’t understand your rage, I don’t understand what it is about the goodness of this country you can’t abide.
Rush Limbaugh1951–2021
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865A House Divided (1858)
- Slavery
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address (1861)
If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865The Lyceum Address (1838)
As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865To the South Carolina Commissioners.
- Presidency
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865
As a nation, we began by declaring that “all men are created equal.” We now practically read it “all men are created equal, except negroes.” When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read “all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics.”
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Letter to Joshua F. Speed (24 August 1855)
- Race
- Slavery
Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man, this race and that race and the other race being inferior and therefore they must be placed in an inferior position. Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Speech at Chicago, Illinois (10 July 1858)
- Race
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865The Gettysburg Address (1863)
- Liberty
In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Lincoln’s Second Annual Message to Congress (1862)
- Freedom
- Slavery
God had sifted three kingdoms to find the wheat for this planting.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858), Part IV, John Alden.
- God
Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five:
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882Paul Revere’s Ride (1860)In context
- History
One if by land, and two if by sea
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882Paul Revere’s Ride (1860)In context
- History