Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

Abraham Lincoln

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: president
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865

Topics

HopeFreedomPowerGovernmentPeople

I'm kind of scatterbrain and all over the place at times.

Johanna Braddy

PlaceKindOverTimes

I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought 'I can't wait for the future when the special effects are good' to represent what was in these books by Arthur C. Clarke, Alfred Bester, Philip K. Dick, J.G. Ballard, Jack Vance.

Matt Groening

GoodFutureScienceWaitReading

Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and government use of data about people.

John Poindexter

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If your life were a book and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? That's the question that changed my life forever.

Amy Purdy

LifeBookStoryMy LifeYouWant

Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

Soren Kierkegaard

TimeChildhoodKindThroughConcepts

I go to a lot of writers conferences and literary festivals that tend to be in college towns or cities, and I'm eager to see what happens if those same texts and those same questions move outside of those areas to smaller rural communities where there are surely people who read and love poetry.

Tracy K. Smith

LovePoetryPeopleCollegeQuestions

For me, reinstating the ban on transgenders in the military was a very positive step.

Tomi Lahren

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Anytime I'm given scripts where I'm sort of the fantasy girl, it's hard for me because that's not real and I don't think it's a great thing to put out there consistently.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

GirlGreatMeThinkFantasyHard

I used to stand on the corner in San Diego with poems sticking out of my hip pocket, asking people if there was a place where I could read poems. The audience is half of the poem.

Juan Felipe Herrera

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From the newest arrivals to our Native American brothers and sisters, we are one America.

Jared Polis

AmericanAmericaBrothersSisters

More power to the people who get to choose their roles. I don't.

Chris Penn

PowerPeopleChooseMoreGetWho

In 'Fugly,' I play a very middle-class guy with whom anyone can relate. At the same time, playing such characters is not as easy as it sounds.

Arfi Lamba

TimeEasyPlaySamePlayingGuy

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