"I am always for the man who..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.”

“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”

“I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me.”

“A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.”

“This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle!”

“Working with people is difficult, but not impossible.”

“The truth is that the scientific value of Polar exploration is greatly exaggerated. The thing that takes men on such hazardous trips is really not any thirst for knowledge, but simply a yearning for adventure. ... A Polar explorer always talks grandly of sacrificing his fingers and toes to science. It is an amiable pretention, but there is no need to take it seriously.”

“If you're extremely rich, and you have got children, my theory was, you give them enough so they can do anything, but not enough so they can do nothing.”

“No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.”