"Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln
Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.
More by Abraham Lincoln
“Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.”
“Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.”
“Never do anything for anyone who can just as well do it themself”
More on Violence
“To achieve the extirpation of Nazi tyranny there are no lengths of violence to which we will not go.”
“Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.”
“One might think, that a period which, within fifty years, uproots, enslaves or kills seventy million human beings, should only, and forthwith, be condemned. But also its guilt must be understood.”
More on Deception
“Hope, deceitful as it is, carries us through life agreeably enough.”
“That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.”
“The seeming truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest.”