Army Quote by Abraham Lincoln

It was like trying to bail out an ocean of water with a teaspoon.

— Jodi Picoult

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

— Lyndon B. Johnson

The only river I would like to be drown is the river filled with the blood of Jesus.

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow…

— J. B. Priestley

And Potomac flowed calmly, scarce heaving her breast, With her low-lying billows all bright in the west, For a charm as from God lulled…

— Paul Hamilton Hayne

I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.

— William Tecumseh Sherman

During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and send a…

— Abraham Lincoln

“In one of my early interviews with the President I expressed my dissatisfaction with the little that had been accomplished by the cavalry so…

— Ulysses S. Grant

I would rather die than be in the United States Senate. I would be bored to death. Could you imagine me, banging around that…

— Chris Christie

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a…

— Khalil Gibran

I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would…

— Harriet Tubman

Sometimes there's just no way to hold back the river.

— Paulo Coelho