Christie > Christie's Quotes

“To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.”
― Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry”
― Abraham Lincoln

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Nothing will divert me from my purpose.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.”
― Anonymous

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.”
― attributed to Abraham Lincoln but discredited.

“If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.”
― Abraham Lincoln