Election/history

Famous quotes containing the words election and/or history:

“[If not re-elected in 1864] then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he can not possibly save it afterwards.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

“The history of a soldier’s wound beguiles the pain of it.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)