"The love of property and consciousness of..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind.”

“The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.”

“The world has never had a good definitionof the word liberty”

“The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.”

“Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.”

“It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”

“Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.”

“With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is better than none. . . . The causal instinct is thus conditional upon, and excited by, the feeling of fear. The "why?" shall, if at all possible, not give the cause for its own sake so much as for a particular kind of cause -- a cause that is comforting, liberating, and relieving.”

“The world being illusive, one must be deluded in some way if one is to triumph in it.”