Abraham Lincoln
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Abraham LincolnAllow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose—and you allow him to make war at pleasure. |
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Re: Abraham LincolnI cannot imagine that anyone, even the President, would make war at pleasure. Is that a power thing or what? Thanks Poet for always making me think. |
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Re: Abraham LincolnMake love not war.... |
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Abraham LincolnWe have some serious issues to deal with here in America about war !!! |
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Abraham LincolnMake love not war is an anti-war slogan commonly associated with the American counterculture of the 1960s. It was used primarily by those who were opposed to the Vietnam War, but has been invoked in other anti-war contexts since. Gershon Legman claimed to be the inventor of the phrase.[1] Radical activists Penelope and Franklin Rosemont helped to popularize the phrase by printing thousands of "Make Love, Not War" buttons at the Solidarity Bookshop in Chicago, Illinois and distributing them at the Mother's Day Peace March in 1965. They were the first to print the slogan.[2] |
Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.