“There are courageous and honest men enough in both sections to fight. There is no question of courage involved. The people of both sections of this Union have illustrated their courage on too many battlefields to be questioned. They have shown their fighting qualities shoulder to shoulder whenever their country has called upon them; but that they may never come in contact with each other in fratricidal war, should be the ardent wish of every true man and honest patriot.” PeopleMenShouldMayWarCountryEnoughFightingWishQualityHonestInvolvedUnionsShouldersContactCourageousPatriotSectionsBattlefieldsHonest ManArdentVery TrueTrue Man Author:Robert Toombs
“And lastly, Chairman Khrushchev has compared the United States to a worn-out runner living on its past performance, and stated that the Soviet Union would out-produce the United States by 1970. Without wishing to trade hyperbole with the Chairman, I do suggest that he reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he his caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.” LongIdeasStatesPastWishUnitedUnited StatesProduceWallSkinsPerformancesTradeUnionsCaughtSovietWornRunnersTigersHuntersSoviet UnionChairmanLiving OnWorn OutHyperbole Author:John F. Kennedy
“The Soviet Union's propaganda clearly wishes to use public opinion in this country to get the West to reduce its own arms while doing nothing themselves. In this way they would gain nuclear superiority. This is simply not on.” WayCountryUseWishOpinionArmsGainsUnionsWestNuclearPropagandaSovietSuperioritySoviet UnionPublic OpinionDoing Nothing Author:James Callaghan
“I think that freedom means freedom for everyone. As many of you know, one of my daughters is gay and it is something we have lived with for a long time in our family. I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish. Any kind of arrangement they wish.” PeopleThinkingKnowsKindMeanLongWishOughtGayLong TimeDaughterUnionsOur FamilyMy DaughterArrangements Author:Dick Cheney
“As a European Union member state, as a country committed throughout all its history to the fight for the values that I have made my own, as the fifth world power, as a country that has marked my life and European Union houses part of European Union, France can act if it wishes to do so.” IfsWorldLifeMadeCountryStatesValuesFightingHouseWishMy OwnMembersUnionsCommittedFranceFifthEuropean UnionWorld Power Author:Julian Assange
“Mr. President, I wish to speak today, not as a Massachusetts man, nor as a Northern man, but as an American. I speak for the preservation of the Union. Hear me for my cause.” MenTodaySpeakWishCausesPresidentUnionsPreservationMassachusetts Book:Defender of the Union: the oratory of Daniel Webster Source: Defender of the Union: the oratory of Daniel Webster