What is give chase?

Famous quotes containing the words give and/or chase:

    Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union for a peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration.
    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    I don’t know why one can’t chase two rabbits at the same time, even in the literal sense of those words. If you have the hounds, go ahead and pursue.
    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)