"The only assurance of our nation's safety..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“Through their deeds, the dead of battle have spoken more eloquently for themselves than any of the living ever could. But we can only honor them by rededicating ourselves to the cause for which they gave a last full measure of devotion.”

“Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me”

“Achievement has no color”

“It recognizes no morality but a sham morality meant for deceit, no honor even among thieves and of a thievish sort, no force but physical force, no intellectual power but cunning, no disgrace but failure, no crime but stupidity.”

“The golden mean in ethics, as in physics, is the centre of the system and that about which all revolve, and though to a distant and plodding planet it be an uttermost extreme, yet one day, when that planet's year is completed, it will be found to be central.”

“The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.”

“The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.”

“I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.”

“Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis, which we ought to have tapped.”