"Nor must Uncle Sam's Web-feet be forgotten...." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln
Nor must Uncle Sam's Web-feet be forgotten. At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broadbay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow muddy bayou, and wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been, and made their tracks.
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“Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.”
“There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end.”
“I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general than at present.”
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“One important element of leadership is taking care of the troops.”
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“Even Napoleon had his Watergate.”
“The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.”
“At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis was sacred to him, and he was the inventor of many arts, such as arithmetic and calculation and geometry and astronomy and draughts and dice, but his great discovery was the use of letters.”