"A man has not the time to..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.”

“The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.”

“A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability.”

“Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.”

“As soon as error is corrected, it is important that the error be forgotten and only the successful attempts be remembered. Errors, mistakes, and humiliations are all necessary steps in the learning process. Once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten. If we constantly dwell upon the errors, then the error or failure becomes the goal.”

“The usual devastating put-downs imply that a person is basically bad, rather than that he is a person who sometimes does bad things. Obviously, there is a vast difference between a "bad" person and a person who does something bad.Besides, failure is an event, it is not a person - yesterday ended last night.”

“Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.”

“Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.”

“On both sides of the line, we are so accustomed to an undefended boundary three thousand miles long that we are inclined perhaps to minimize its vast importance, not only to our own continuing relations but also to the example which it sets to the other nations of the world.”