"I freely acknowledge myself the servant of..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.”

“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”

“My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.”

“The US is safest when Congress is in recess.”

“Nothing rectifies out-of-control market failures like a healthy dose ofgovernment intervention and mountains of bureaucracy.”

“Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.”

“One reason--perhaps the chief--of the virility of the Roosevelts is [their] very democratic spirit. They have never felt that because they were born in a good position they could put their hands in their pockets and succeed. They have felt, rather, that being born in a good position, there is no excuse for them if they did not do their duty by the community.”

“There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.”

“At last a vision has been vouchsafed to us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good.... With this vision we approach new affairs. Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life, without weakening or sentimentalizing it.”