"Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“I can't spare this man, he fights!”

“War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.”

“Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.”

“I would not advise people who feel strongly or are concerned about some of the issues that have been raised during the course of the [president electing] campaign.”

“Envy is always referred to by its political alias, 'social justice.”

“In England, there are only two things to be, basically: You are either for the labor movement or for the capitalist movement. Either you become a right-wing Archie Bunker if you are in the class I am in, or you become an instinctive socialist, which I was.”

“We waded so gently and reverently, or we pulled together so smoothly, that the fishes of thought were not scared from the stream, nor feared any angler on the bank, but came and went grandly, like the clouds which came and went on the western sky, and the mother-o'-pearl flocks which sometimes form and dissolve there.”

“Peace is our natural state of being.”

“For hours, in fall days, I watched the ducks cunningly tack and veer and hold the middle of the pond, far from the sportsman;... but what beside safety they got by sailing in the middle of Walden I do not know, unless they love its water for the same reason that I do.”