"I hope to stand firm enough to..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“There' s nothing good in war. Except its ending.”

“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”

“Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.”

“A magistrate is not a father; he must be just and severe. Only tyrants are fathers.”

“Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest men, with understanding sufficient for their stations. No duty is at the same time more difficult to fulfil. The knowledge of character possessed by a single individual is of necessity limited. To seek out the best through the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with the purest motives, is sometimes incorrect.”

“Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.”

“A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.”

“The exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join in it or not, and it is one of the great adventures of all time, and no nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in this race for space.”

“New technology is the true friend of full employment; the indispensable ally of progress; and the surest guarantee of prosperity.”