The Lincoln Myth (Cotton Malone, #9) QUOTES

2 " The greatest enemy of truth is often not the lie --- deliberate, contrived and dishonest --- but the myth --- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic . - John Kennedy "

― Steve Berry , The Lincoln Myth (Cotton Malone, #9)

4 " I ain’t as good as I once was, but I’m as good once as I ever was. "

― Steve Berry , The Lincoln Myth (Cotton Malone, #9)

6 " Nearly every president had wanted a second term, despite the fact that history clearly taught the last four years would be nothing like the first. Either the president became overly aggressive, knowing he had nothing to lose, which alienated both supporters and detractors. Or he became cautious, placid, and docile, not wanting to do anything that might affect his legacy. "

― Steve Berry , The Lincoln Myth (Cotton Malone, #9)

8 " any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable—a most sacred right—a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people, that can, may revolutionize, and make their own of so much of the territory as they inhabit. "

― Steve Berry , The Lincoln Myth (Cotton Malone, #9)

10 " even the blind-eyed biscuit thrower occasionally hits the target. "

― Steve Berry , The Lincoln Myth (Cotton Malone, #9)

12 " Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. "

― Steve Berry , The Lincoln Myth (Cotton Malone, #9)