Famous quotes containing the words save and/or child:
“My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“To depend on one’s own child is blindness in one eye;
To depend on a stranger, blindness in both eyes.”
—Malaysian proverb.