Famous quotes containing the words earl and/or lincoln:
“Indifference is commonly the mother of discretion.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“I never did ask more, nor ever was willing to accept less, than for all the States, and the people thereof, to take and hold their places, and their rights, in the Union, under the Constitution of the United States. For this alone have I felt authorized to struggle; and I seek neither more nor less now.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)