Quote by Barack Obama
I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipato

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator. – Barack Obama

Other quotes by Barack Obama

If the critics are right that Ive made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them. – Barack Obama

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good
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When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans – an avian flu pandemic. – Barack Obama

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Nature
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Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation – not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago. – Barack Obama

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power
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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them. – Samuel Johnson

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great

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale. – Elsa Schiaparelli

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great

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body. – Theodore Roosevelt

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great

Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise, but little danger. – Samuel Johnson

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great

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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure. – Edward Eggleston

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Failure

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands. – Maria Shriver

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Friendship

At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if youre not in the right place where you need to be, then youre going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues. – Mehmet Oz

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Health

Im just attracted to playing people who are ostensible unlikable. Thats not to say that theres something in there that makes you care. It might be that you just find them so awful that you just cant stop watching, like a car crash. – Steve Coogan

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car