Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs.
The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.
It's safe to assume none of us actually wants to see ISIS-inspired terrorists armed with semi-automatic rifles, able to attack at will within our own borders.
In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the judgment of everyone else, usurping what is not their own by setting themselves up as judges in their own cause when the rightful judge is their superior.
You must have anger, as rightful wrath is what makes you create your own ethical standards.
I started my own zine, and riot grrrl became a huge part of my identity.
My own basketball background was ripping up my ACL in a lawyer's league.
Walmart is so huge that a wage boost at Walmart would ripple through the entire economy, putting more money in the pockets of low-wage workers. This would help boost the entire economy - including Walmart's own sales.
Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
If you have no road map, you have to create your own.
The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.
There are many brilliant actors, including our own Dilip Kumar, but Robert de Niro is something else.
When I was a little boy, I rode, but I didn't own horses.
I think that Roe v. Wade will ultimately be overturned. I think it'll fall of its own weight. It does not have any constitutional underpinnings.
My own favorite is something called Rogue Male.
Raised Roman Catholic up until 11 or 12, didn't stick. Went out into the world and did my own thing.
After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate.
The Indians gave up the land of their own free will, and for it received brass kettles, blankets, guns, shirts, flints, tobacco, rum and many trinkets in which their simple hearts delighted.
The British don't runaway from terrorism. We have had 30-odd years of terrorism in our own country from the Irish Republican Army. We're used to it.
I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a rupture with us by the artifices of the French, their own weakness and the influence which the French Missionary Priests have over them.
