"When you have got an elephant by..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.”

“I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.”

“Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity should look up again at the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began.”

“The question which we must ask ourselves is not whether we like or do not like what is going on, but what we are going to do about it.”

“How often have I found that wanting to use blue, I didn't have it so I used a red instead of the blue.”

“As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.”

“Force is the only language the imperialists can hear, and no country became free without some sort of violence.”

“We are the only nation in the world that waits till we get into a war before we start getting ready for it.”

“At the same time Reverend Galamison policy is intelligent enough where he can't be used to attack me.”