"Money powers prey upon the nation in..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.”

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.”

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

“The generous Mind least regards money, and yet most feels the Want of it.”

“Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.”

“Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it is never played for money”

“If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.”

“A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?”

“Friends are the true Sceptres of Princes.”