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Destroy Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
- Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.
- Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy...
- I destroy my enemy if I make him my friend.
- The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it. The picture was not made to conceal or destroy the apple,…
- Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever-it being impossible to destroy it, except by some…
- 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…
- My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save…
- My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.
- When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to…
- President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. "Why do you try to make friends of them?" asked an associate. "You should…
- What constitutes the bulwark of our liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea-coasts, our army and our navy. ... Our…
- Destroy your enemy by making him your friend.
- The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
- Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit…
- There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.
- I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends
More Destroy Quotes
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov
- Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge,… — Isaac Asimov
- This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law. — James A. Baldwin
- America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. — John Quincy Adams
- All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of… — Charles A. Beard
- All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is… — Simone de Beauvoir
- The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. — Joseph Addison
- To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature. — Max Beerbohm
- Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have… — Ingrid Bergman
- Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee. — Aneurin Bevan
- He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives… — William Blake