quotes about Gettysburg Address

“Many Southern Plantation owners were working towards the day when they could convert their investment to more profitable industrial production as had been done in the North, and others felt that freemen who were paid wages would be more efficient than slaves who had no incentive to work. For the present, however, they were stuck with the system they inherited. They felt that a complete and sudden abolition of slavery with no transition period would destroy their economy and leave many of the former slaves to starve - all of which actually happened in due course.”

“All important pictures embody something that we do not yet understand.”

“Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs.”

“It is fair to write about the change in your magazines. But what I want to see is the change on your covers ... When the covers change, that's when culture changes.”

“I swear, you are the only person I know who makes decisions based on what will provide the best material for a diary.”

Source : Rob Thomas (2013). “Rats Saw God”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

“If you tell yourself something over and over again, right or wrong, it becomes intuitive.”

“My Lord, what love is this that pays so dearly. That I, the guilty one, may go free!”

“History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.”

“You can only depend on yourself. The cavalry aint coming,”

“A horse, if he happens to have a contemptuous disposition, can sneer very effectively.”

Source : Esther Meynell (1940). “A Woman Talking”, London, Chapman & Hall [1940.]