Posterity will call you the great emancipator, a more enviable title than any crown could be, and greater than any merely mundane treasure.
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Giuseppe Garibaldi, 6 August 1863 letter to Lincoln, as quoted in Garibaldi (Great Lives Observed) by Denis Mack Smith.Abraham Lincoln
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I know the title of a King is a glorious title, but assure yourself that the shining glory of princely authority hath not so dazzled the eyes of our understanding, but that we well know and remember that we also are to yield an account of our actions before the great judge. To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.
Elizabeth I of England
Our aim is to gain control of the two great treasure houses on which the West depends: The energy treasure house of the Persian Gulf and the minerals treasure house of Central and Southern Africa.
Leonid Brezhnev
His grandeur he deriv’d from heaven alone,
For he was great e’er fortune made him so
And wars like mists that rise against the sun
Made him but greater seem, not greater grow.
No borrow’d bays his temple did adorn,
But to our Crown he did fresh jewels bring;
Nor was his virtue poison’d soon as born,
With the too early thoughts of being King.Oliver Cromwell
"Noelle's Treasure Tale" is based on the historical fact that three Spanish galleons full of treasure sunk off Florida's treasure coast and have never been recovered. I have a beach house on the Treasure Coast, and I'm out there with my snorkel looking for the treasure.
Gloria Estefan
I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.
Barack Obama
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