Lincoln Preserving The Union Quotes & Sayings

Deep down here by the dark water lived old Gollum, a small slimy creature. I don't know where he came from, nor who or what he was. He was Gollum - as dark as darkness, except for two big round pale eyes in his thin face. — J.R.R. Tolkien

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up? — Robert Southey

And I was afraid. She frightens me because she can knock me down with a word. Because she does not know that writing is walking on a dizzying silence setting one word after the other on emptiness. Writing is miraculous and terrifying like the flight of a bird who has no wings but flings itself out and only gets wings by flying. — Helene Cixous

If Lincoln's primary goal in the War was not the abolition of slavery but simply to preserve the Union, the question arises: Why did the Union need preserving? Or, more pointedly, why did the Southern states want to secede? — G. Edward Griffin

For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over the weak, the vacillating, inconsistent good. — William Wordsworth

He made it hard for a girl to not fall head over heels. — Jill Shalvis

A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent. — William Blake

I collect traditional Aubusson tapestries that you can hang on a wall. The last lot I bought were from an antiques fair in London. — Bonnie Tyler

We are all beautiful in the eyes of God. — John Marco

Was so proud that night, so self-possessed, standing tall, fully inhabited. I owned myself, felt fully mine to give. — Elisa Albert