The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made... - Abraham Lincoln

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

"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."

"The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them."

"My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth."

"Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)"