"The point - the power to hurt..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.”

“There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.”

“My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.”

“If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.”

“Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another.”

“What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.”

“Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party.”

“No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only. If our government ever fails, it will be from this weakness.”

“You have a tremendous advantage over the man who does you an injury: You have it within your power to forgive him, while he has no such advantage over you.”