Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? - Abraham Lincoln

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

"Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in."

"The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person."

"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."

"I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God."