“Commander Bainimarama is clean and fighting for the truth. The stand he is taking is going to save the Fijian race.”

Opening address to the Great Council of Chiefs meeting, 27 July 2005 (excerpts)

Source: The Sea of Monsters

Source: The Drawing of the Three

Interview, 11 January 2006

Source: Tender Is the Night

Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), First presidential debate (September 26, 2016)

1930s, Address at the Dedication of the Memorial on the Gettysburg Battlefield (1938)
Context: Lincoln spoke in solace for all who fought upon this field; and the years have laid their balm upon their wounds. Men who wore the blue and men who wore the gray are here together, a fragment spared by time. They are brought here by the memories of old divided loyalties, but they meet here in united loyalty to a united cause which the unfolding years have made it easier to see. All of them we honor, not asking under which flag they fought then — thankful that they stand together under one flag now. Lincoln was commander-in-chief in this old battle; he wanted above all things to be commander-in-chief of the new peace. He understood that battle there must be; that when a challenge to constituted government is thrown down, the people must in self-defense take it up; that the fight must be fought through to a decision so clear that it is accepted as being beyond recall.

Notebook #42

Source: The Hidden Oracle