Word: lincolns
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...freedom. We have always had to find the right path between these two virtues. During wartime, America has a long and not very glorious history of sacrificing liberty in favor of security. John Adams championed the Alien and Sedition Acts during a period of tension with France. Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus during the Civil War. Franklin Roosevelt tolerated the internment of Japanese-Americans during World...
Moderator Marty Foster, former host of the now-cancelled talk show “Cambridge Inside Out,” opened the panel by referring to the Nixon-Kennedy and Lincoln-Douglas debates...
...simmering unease has erupted into one mini-scandal in Marietta. Jim and Sylvi Caporale, owners of the American Flags & Poles store on Front Street, unfurled a three-story flag down the front of their building on Sept. 11. Jim remembered learning that, after Lincoln's assassination, people had placed black sashes across their flags. So the next day he added a black banner. "I felt really strong about emphasizing my grief," explains Caporale, a big, booming man who used to be a New York State police officer...
Giuliani could well win. But the law says he can't run. And the law has always been bigger than any one man, no matter how devastating the crisis. In 1864, Abraham Lincoln recognized that an election should not be a casualty of war, arguing, "If the rebellion could force us to forgo or postpone a national election, it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined...
...Abraham Lincoln once said, “I will prepare and some day my chance will come.” George W. Bush’s chance has come, and he has displayed character, steadfast integrity, and an unbreakable will. In these tumultuous times, we should all be proud to have him as our Commander-in-Chief...