Quotes About Springfield

As Lincoln remarked, "It is my private opinion that, if the Lord has been in Springfield once, he will never come the second time.

The first 10 years of my education were spent at a Catholic school in Springfield, Mass.

A Springfield "horseshoe" was an often grotesque open-faced sandwich in which a piece of meat was covered first with french fries and then with a cheeselike sauce. Visitors knowledgeable enough to avoid the local delicacy felt rightfully proud. The statement that Springfield was a city of "bad hotels and worse food" was perhaps apocryphal, but there was no shortage of bars, because drinking was state politicos' top recreational activity.

One voice was raised in dissent. A Springfield lawyer, a former member of Congress and longtime Whig named Abraham Lincoln, took up Douglas's defense of Kansas-Nebraska at the Illinois statehouse in Springfield the day after Douglas spoke at the state fair. In the course of a three-hour speech, Lincoln proceeded to tear Kansas-Nebraska and popular sovereignty to shreds.

Indeed, Chicago seems to have literally sucked the air out of Springfield: another case of American becoming a network of massive city-states more intimately interconnected with other continents than with their own hinterlands. It is in the merging with the rest of the world and global civilization that the forces of division come to the fore at home. Springfield: another small city that should inspire but doesn't.

We need to focus on issues where we all agree, which is spending discipline and control and making sure that government, both in Springfield and in Washington, doesn't take more from your family budget.

With his life. But Springfield is just one guy.

A couple of months after the release of Stars 'n Bars, Young abruptly changed direction again. He surfaced in Santa Cruz, a friendly but somewhat seedy hippie college town not far from his ranch, playing guitar in a local outfit that included Moby Grape's bass player, Bob Mosley, and Jeff Blackburn, whom Young had encountered during the Springfield days.

We have to be bold, tough, and fundamentally change government because Springfield is broken.

Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it's hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.

I was born in Springfield and raised in West Springfield. My father ran a dry cleaning business and was a salesman.

Lincoln's removal from New Salem to Springfield and his entrance into a law partnership with Major John T. Stuart begin a distinctively new period in his career.

In the Illinois State Capitol, in Springfield, farmer-legislators write the agriculture laws.

Mr. Hoadley disappeared soon after delivering this sermon; but the text, printed in Springfield, is still extant.

along Keene Mill Road. Another mile and a half along the two-lane road that bisected Springfield, Virginia, and they'd reach the Beltway girdling

The same year, both the Russian and the French governments adopted a plan to rifle all of their old smoothbore muskets. And of course, during Jefferson Davis's tenure as secretary of war (1853-57) the Americans produced what today might be termed an unauthorized knockoff in the form of the Springfield rifle.

The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers and distinguished services have given Illinois fame in the history of the nation.

Springfield in 1938 was not a center for plastic surgery. In Springfield, you wore your face as it was.

And they turned around and leased it to The Assembly Of God Churches - their headquarters are in Springfield, Missouri. They leased it to them for the first year. Then, after the first year, they will donate it to the church.

But, also, before I even go on the Medicare prescription drug debate, I always tell the folks in rural Illinois, and I represent 30 counties south of Springfield down to Indiana and Kentucky, that in this bill is the best rural package for hospitals ever passed.

A whole generation was raised to learn about comedy from 'The Simpsons.' To get to be in a booth with Homer and Marge and be in Springfield - it was unimaginable the emotions that I felt.

The government union bosses are the most powerful politicians in Springfield.

THE APPROACH OF Thanksgiving on November 29 sent Springfield into a panic—not over the nation-imperiling crisis plaguing its leading citizen, but the apparently more dismaying prospect of a local turkey shortage.

Lincoln's "campaign" for president ended how and where it began: in adamant silence, and in the same Illinois city to which he had so tenaciously clung since the national convention. Like the solar eclipse that had obscured the Illinois sun in July, Lincoln remained in Springfield, hidden in full view.