Lincoln Fort Sumter Quotes & Sayings

It is not that I believe ideals are unimportant, even among the realities of war; but if a nation is to survive in a hostile world, its ideals must be backed by the hard logic of military practicability. — Charles Lindbergh

I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy. — Ivan Reitman

Thoughts are things - choose the good ones! — Mike Dooley

It's amazing, but I guess that happens when you become overly famous. Every week now, I get more famous. — Serena Williams

Anyone with a Purpose Can Make a Difference — Zig Ziglar

If you have to ask, ask for the ability to help others. — Debasish Mridha

Why do so many young people literally die to belong to fraternities, sororities, and other college social organizations? The answer is complicated, but here is a starting point:
Ever since the medieval universities were founded, young people have done whatever it takes to gain acceptance, to break with their past lives, to achieve a sense of power, to carve out a society of their own that isn't quite what their tutors and teachers had in mind. In the United States, hazing and drinking have been endemic since colonial days. — Hank Nuwer

I lost my power in the world because I did not use it. — Lindsey Buckingham

Brains, you see, vary a lot from person to person - they vary as much as faces do. — Sam Kean

Poetry that tames language into tight structures and yet manages to move us comes off as a feat, paralleling ballet or athletic talent in harnessing craft to beauty. When poetry is based on a less rigorous, more impressionistic definition of craft, its appeal depends more on whether one happens to be individually constituted to "get it" for various reasons. The audience narrows: poetry becomes more like tai chi than baseball. — John McWhorter

A large body of people, sufficient to make a nation, have come to the conclusion that they will have a government of a certain form. Who denies them the right? Standing with the principles of '76 behind us, who can deny them the right? ... I maintain on the principles of '76 that Abraham Lincoln has no right to a soldier in Fort Sumter ... You can never make such a war popular ... The North never will endorse such a war. — Wendell Phillips

Integrity, by its definition, means adhering consistently to a strong, reliable code of ethics, whatever that code is. — Scott K. Edinger

Let us return to 'no'. It has the charm of brevity. — Sharon Lee

The play is really a kind of nightmare. It ought to flow rapidly and effortlessly from one moment to another. In London, we had difficulty with the set, which required too much effort to move around. Having gotten the benefit of seeing it done once, I wanted to work on the script, to make it sharper and more pointed. — Arthur Miller

In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning. — William Hull