"When I lay down the reins of..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln
When I lay down the reins of this administration, I want to have one friend left. And that friend is myself.
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“The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves – in their separate, and individual capacities.”
“Doubtless you begin to understand how disagreeable it is to me to do a thing arbitrarily, when it is unsatisfactory to others associated with me.”
“It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this year as well as last.”
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“I prefer nothing, unless it is true.”
“By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.”
“For my part, I love to stand foot to foot with an honest foeman. To open warfare, bold and true hearts raise no objection but the ground of quarrel; it is covert enmity which we have most cause to fear, and best reason to loathe. That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer.”