All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. - Abraham Lincoln

"A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones."

"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"

"I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day."

"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses."

"Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar."