Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it. - Abraham Lincoln

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

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

"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."

"That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well."

"In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth."