If there is not the war,
you don't get the great general;
if there is not a great occasion,
you don't get a great statesman;
if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace,
no one would have known his name.
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If there is not the war,
you don't get the great general;
if there is not a great occasion,
you don't get a great statesman;
if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace,
no one would have known his name.
In great contests each party claims to act in accordance
with the will of God.
Both may be, and one must be wrong.
Yeah,
Wacko Jacko,
where did that come from?
Some English tabloid.
I have a heart and I have feelings.
I feel that when you do that to me.
It's not nice.
The unleashed power of the atom has changed
everything save our modes of thinking and
we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
The alternate domination of one faction over another,
sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension,
which in different ages and countries has perpetrated
the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.
But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.
Lets have faith that right makes might;
and in that faith let us,
to the end,
dare to do our duty as we understand it.