"Never stir up litigation, a worse man..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln
Never stir up litigation, a worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this, who can be more nearly a fiend than he who habitually overhauls the register of deeds in search of defects in titles, whereon to stir up strife, and put money in his pocket?
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“We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.”
“There' s nothing good in war. Except its ending.”
“One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.”
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“Laws aren't ghosts in this country, they walk around with the smell of earth on them.”
“The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.”
“There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we may obey. We may study the laws of matter at and for our convenience, but a successful life knows no law.”
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“The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.”
“The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma.”
“The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.”