Yes, polygamy is one of the relics of Adam, of Enoch, of Noah, of Abraham, of Isaac, of Jacob, of Moses, David, Solomon, the Prophets, of Jesus, and his apostles.
But if one doesn't have a character like Abraham Lincoln or Joan of Arc, a diet simply disintegrates into eating exactly what you want to eat, but with a bad conscience.
You don't know who to believe. Like Abraham Lincoln. He said all men were created equal. He never went to a nude beach.
Jay Abraham's client sent him $50,000 a month for a long time for writing one headline. That's what people who understand communication can do.
How did Abraham know that it was God that bid him offer his son, being a breach of the sixth commandment?
I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
Our party was built upon the beliefs of President Abraham Lincoln, who took the significant step to put us on the long path for equality.
If I could be any famous person, I'd be John Wilkes Booth, because I'd love to shoot Abraham Lincoln in the face
Abraham Lincoln is resolute, honest, has the best interest of the nation at heart, and he's as ugly as homemade Sunday sin, so he is modest, too. I'd vote for that in an undead heartbeat.
My first fight was a little weasel from American called Andre Dirrell. I say that because he runs and holds, and I hope Abraham bangs him out.
It is almost always a mistake to mention Abraham Lincoln. He always steals the show.
Honest Abe never lied. That's the good thing. That's the big difference between Abraham Lincoln and you [Hillary Clinton].
Being the companion of the folk of this world is fire. There must be an Abraham if the fire is not going to burn [you].
You cannot build a little guy up by tearing a big guy down. Abraham Lincoln said it...
Most of the leading figures of the Old Testament were polygamists. Abraham had several wives and concubines. If they wanted, they could say this was approved in the Bible.
How many honest men do you know? Take the sinners away from the saints, you're lucky to end up with Abraham Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge.
Slavery in New Hampshire was never legally abolished, unless Abraham Lincoln did it. The State itself has not ever pronounced any emancipation edict.
Every politician - FDR, Lyndon Johnson, Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama - they're all conservative by nature. They are part of the big thing and they're moving in a very constrained world.
If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.
My favorite thought about Abraham Lincoln is he believed in two things: loving one another and working together to make this world better.
There have been many amazing Presidents in American history, including George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan, all of whom I greatly admire.
Abraham Lincoln once said that if you are a racist, I will attack you with the north. And those are the principles that I carry with me in the workplace.
I think we have reason to thank God for Abraham Lincoln. With all his deficiencies, it must be admitted that he has grown continually.
As we go from Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt to Mitt Romney, I now understand why the Republicans don't believe in evolution.
Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously.
Painting for a whole morning gives one as excellent an appetite for one's dinner, as old Abraham Tucker acquired for his by riding over Banstead Downs.
There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him.
My favorite novel ever is Abraham Verghese's 'Cutting for Stone.' It takes you so many places. I stayed up to 4 in the morning to finish it.
Abraham Lincoln and Millard Fillmore had the same title. They were both presidents of the United States, but their tenure in office and their legacy could not be more different.
As for me, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are now only the subtlest imaginable essences, which would not stain the morning sky.
Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see
I want to fight Andre Ward, Arthur Abraham, Gilberto Ramirez, I want to box the best.
In high school, I weighed 175 to 180. I looked like Abraham Lincoln. I was 6-foot-3, biggest thing in the class, but tall, not fat.
Abraham is the shared ancestor of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. He stands at the heart of these three faiths. And yet you know almost nothing about him.
We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man.
I think, with the gay liberation movement has had need for heroes and heroines, and it would be rather nice to have Abraham Lincoln as your poster boy, wouldn't it?
Abraham," he said. "I'm pleased to see you alive, old friend." "And I to see you dead.
In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement.
Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free."
F. Murray Abraham is an incredible actor and has been for a long time. I've been watching him as I grew up.
The Internet is changing the way we think of our relationship with government; it has the potential to bring to life what Abraham Lincoln said about the presidency being an instrument of the people.
President Abraham Lincoln never lost his ardor for the United States to remain united during the Civil War.
The Civil Rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He's helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln.
I grew up in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, Harden County, which is not too far from the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln.
American foreign policy and military might have opened an opportunity for the Gospel in the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
The father-son relationship is the strongest there is. It's been the basis of drama all the way back to the Bible. Notice, Abraham wasn't told to sacrifice a daughter.
We want more men and women who walk with God and before God, like Enoch and Abraham.
The president was not the most important political player in the 19th century. Besides Jefferson at the beginning, Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln, the center of politics was Congress.
Hebron is a bone of contention between Israeli settlers and the Palestinians in part because Abraham is buried there, in the Tomb of the Patriarchs.
Hate cultures are not a thing of the past. They're a continuing problem and one cannot blame presidencies for this. Racism in the U.S. began way back, before the time of Abraham Lincoln.
We believe slavery was abolished with Abraham Lincoln; unfortunately, human slavery is alive and well.
Abraham Lincoln was not philosopher, exactly. But he did have a strong mind, which sought generalizations as well as particulars. He had a terrific memory.
If you have been given a word from God, you must continue in that direction until it comes to pass (even twenty five years like Abraham).
Stupidity is not an accusation that could be hurled against such prominent early Republicans as Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root and Charles Evans Hughes.
I think that Abraham Lincoln probably did more to trick negroes than any other man in history.
My wife told me that in the Bible, Abraham circumcised himself... wow! I can't even get to the bank before it closes.
Abraham Lincoln is the guy who could never be elected today, but whom we desperately wish we could elect.
My record shows that I have put my country first, and I follow the philosophy and traditions of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan.
I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.
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