"If 600,000 people have to die in..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.”

“Behind the cloud the sun is still shining.”

“Writing is the great invention of the world.”

“It is not our frowning battlements...or the strength our gallant and disciplined army? These are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land... Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere.”

“We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries.”

“It may be that at some time in the dim future of the race the need for war will vanish: but that time is yet ages distant. As yet no nation can hold its place in the world, or can do any work really worth doing, unless it stands ready to guard its right with an armed hand.”

“Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done”

“One has to completely humiliate oneself to be what the Beatles were . . . . It happened bit by bit, until . . . you're doing exactly what you don't want to do with people you can't stand -- the people you hated when you were ten.”

“The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.”