"We should avoid planting and cultivating too..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money.”

“Talk to the jury as though your client's fate depends on every word you utter.”

“Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.”

“I cannot believe that our factory system is the best mode by which men may get clothing. The condition of the operatives is becoming every day more like that of the English; and it cannot be wondered at, since, as far as I have heard or observed, the principal object is, not that mankind may be well and honestly clad, but, unquestionably, that the corporations may be enriched.”

“There are few enough people with sufficient independence to see the weaknesses and follies of their contemporaries and remain themselves untouched by them.”

“All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances. The larger evils invariably escaped their notice.”

“A certain harmony should be kept between actions and ideas if we want to fully develop the effects they can produce.”

“I love my people and I don't hate nobody and it keeps me out of trouble.”

“I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.”