"Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.”

“A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.”

“On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.”

“If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more,we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song. And if our hands should meet in another dream we shall build another tower in the sky.”

“It was their secret, a secret meant for just the two of them, and she'd never been able to imagine how it would sound coming from someone else. But, somehow, Logan made it sound just right.”

“When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.”

“Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.”

“It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.”

“None but the dead have free speech.”