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Civil Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
- During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and send a barrel…
- In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You…
- Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
- In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.
- The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one…
- Washington's is the mightiest name of earth - long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name…
- Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, . even during a bloody Civil War.
- The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.
- I am glad I made the late race. It gave me a hearing on the great and durable question of the age, which I could…
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- Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you have an… — Glenn Beck
- A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward… — Pope Benedict XVI
- Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church. — Pope Benedict XVI
- Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't. — Joe Biden
- During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement. — Joe Biden
- In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'. — Tony Blair