What is your favorite quote? And why?

[cafolini]

Lincoln was a most ignorant military man. But he was also a most lucky one in giving comand of the north to George Meade when he needed the best general he could find. Meade would not have fought Gettysburg without doing what Lincoln could have never done. He was the way to democracy when he submitted to a vote whether or not the north would go after Lee. The north voted yes and the war went on. Otherwise Meade would have resigned.
Lee decided to play a trick, a gamble, where he lost 18,000 men. Then he started apollogizing as he withdrew into the deep south. Lee knew that unless Meade went after his defeated army he could not hope to entrap him latter in territory unknown to Lincoln's general. But so did Meade and did not go after that challenge.
Lincoln, who missunderstood the military game masterfoolly, came down on Meade heavily. Meade ignored Lincoln's lack of grasp and kept going safely.
His actions caused Lincoln to eventually show his political extreme compentency. He wrote a 271-word address which became known as The Gettysburg Address and delivered with it, at Gettysburg, our country into everlasting democracy: The government of the people, for the people, and by the people. Not many of us understood this until much later. Many still don't ~ C A Cafolini

[cafolini]

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. ~ Khalil Gibran

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever. ~ Khalil Gibran

[Korero]

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes. - Henry David Thoreau

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies. - Diogenes

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. - Napoleon Bonaparte

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move. - Benjamin Franklin

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. - Alexander Smith

[cafolini]

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being. ~ Khalil Gibran

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.' ~ Khalil Gibran

[Zobian]

'People won't hate you unless you give them a reason to'
I like this one because it's meaningful to the general population.

[cafolini]

There are actually five (or more) versions of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. This is the version that appears on the Lincoln Monument in Washington, D. C. and contains the words "under God." This term appears to be the most notable difference among the five versions. According to popular accounts Lincoln spoke those words.

The Gettysburg Address

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate—we cannot consecrate—we cannot hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom— and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

[cafolini]

That all men are created equal is not born from an actual fact. It must be born from the spiritual reality that the human soul is incapable of recognizing any veritable rank. ~ E. A. Poe

All men are equal to fish. ~ Hoover.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

"The thing about quotes on the internet is that you can never trust them." -Abraham Lincoln

[cafolini]

"The thing about quotes on the internet is that you can never trust them." -Abraham Lincoln

It was Al Gore listening to the GOP.

[ShortStory]

“Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions.”
By Tony Robbins
I like this quote, it gives me strength whenever i am loosing my strength to solve something.

[cafolini]

“Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions.”
By Tony Robbins
I like this quote, it gives me strength whenever i am loosing my strength to solve something.

It is assuming quite a bit to have the solutions.

[Brielle92]

To thine own self be true - Hamlet

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love - The Brothers Karamazov

Become a sun and everyone will see you - Crime and Punishment

And then there's Sonnet 116,

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

And of course Captain Wentworth's letter to Anne in Persuasion, the best love letter of all time:

I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone forever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own, than when you broke it eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.

[cafolini]

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. ~ Woody Allen

[aliengirl]

The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost. ~Arthur Schopenhauer

[aliengirl]

And of course Captain Wentworth's letter to Anne in Persuasion, the best love letter of all time:

I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone forever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own, than when you broke it eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.

Great choice! If a man would write like this in real life and mean it too, then it would be worth to leave the entire world for him. The only problem in real life is that something like this happens in the middle of life and before long you realize that it is not an Austen novel.