"Democracy is "government of, by and for..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading”

“Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode is very simple, though laborious, and tedious. It is only to get the books, and read, and study them carefully. Begin with Blackstone's Commentaries, and after reading it carefully through, say twice, take up Chitty's Pleading, Greenleaf's Evidence, & Story's Equity &c. in succession. Work, work, work, is the main thing.”

“Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.”

“Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.”

“I don't vote. We're led to believe we're free through the exercise of ineffective freedoms.”

“Democracy is not a static thing. It is an everlasting march.”

“Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.”

“I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one another in large cities as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe.”

“Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.”