"If there is no military need for..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“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.”

“Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.”

“In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.”

“No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.”

“Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.”

“No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. .. No foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions.”

“Power is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice is love correcting everything that goes against love.”

“It is a wicked thing to be neutral between right and wrong.”

“Life is short. That's all there is to say. Get what you can from the present - thoughtfully, justly.”