Famous quotes containing the word hold:
“I never did ask more, nor ever was willing to accept less, than for all the States, and the people thereof, to take and hold their places, and their rights, in the Union, under the Constitution of the United States. For this alone have I felt authorized to struggle; and I seek neither more nor less now.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“I hold the value of life is to improve one’s condition. Whatever is calculated to advance the condition of the honest, struggling laboring man, so far as my judgment will enable me to judge of a correct thing, I am for that thing.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“Shallow. Doth she hold her own well?
Falstaff. Old, old, Master Shallow.
Shallow. Nay, she must be old, she cannot choose but be old,
certain she’s old.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)