It is better to give your path to a dog than to be bitten by him, contesting for the right.

Maybe it’s not as clear-cut as that. Maybe it’s the very presence of one thing – light or darkness – that necessitates the existence of the other.Think about it, people couldn’t become legendary heroes if...

My ex girlfriend, she gave great log cabin. But she couldn’t write a speech like Lincoln. So I grew a beard and broke up with her.

How many of us have conflicts with someone else- and how many of us pray for that person? We have individuals with whom we are competitive, or whom we dislike or have a quarrel with;...

It is a well known fact that Abraham Lincoln spent much of his spare time visiting wounded soldiers in Union Army hospitals. I’ve spent thirty years teaching history at Columbia and I don’t think I’ve...

Good to see you too, Otto.” -Sydney Rose

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

LIberty is slavery. Or, well, you already know. P.S. Can you find my logo in the image?

Amelia nodded her head, “That makes perfect sense.””No is doesn’t,” jeered Otto.”Yes, it does,” sighed Amelia. “Don’t you ever remember anything important?””Of course, I remember how many Star Trek seasons there were and when the...

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and ‘with malice toward none and charity for all’ go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a...

A bad leader wouldn’t stress the importance of staying together to stop the enemy. You want peace? You can’t forgive the enemy, if you can’t forgive your men for losing faith. You can’t force every...

All I have learned, I learned from books.

Father Sams, a mirthful shaman, looked at a nighted photograph of actress Lar Park Lincoln beneath his glass of bourbon con hielo.

Great job, you just executed Ben Franklin! – Otto Ray

Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me

Lincoln once said that America was founded on a proposition that was written by Jefferson in 1776. We are really founded on an argument about what that proposition means.

Hello fake Everett children.

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

It must have really not liked me, but I can’t imagine why, don’t say anything Amelia.”Amelia shrugged her shoulders, “It liked me the first time.”Otto smirked, “Well I have no idea why.

Contrary to his infallibly “honest” image, Abe wasn’t above lying so long as it served a noble purpose.

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.[Lincoln’s maxim and philosophy]

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered — either by themselves or by others. But for the Civil War, Lincoln and Grant and Sherman and Sheridan would not have been discovered, nor have risen into...

[Prison Break is] one of the craziest, most unpredictable roller-coaster rides on TV today.

It was not until the year 1808 that Great Britain abolished the slave trade. Up to that time her judges, sitting upon the bench in the name of justice, her priests, occupying her pulpits, in...

Nothing is endlessI know that nowLet me goV-Violet’s letter

{When Abraham Lincoln was 26 years old in 1835, he wrote a defense of Thomas Paine’s deism; a political associate, Samuel Hill, burned it to save Lincoln’s political career. Historian Roy Basler, the editor of...

You’re incredible. I can feel your power and it’s more than anything I…Violet,” he swallowed, watching me in awe. “It’s like…It’s like you’re as powerful as an angel.”-Lincoln