"You must remember that some things legally..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.”

“It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.”

“There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.”

“Any judicial nominee who has said that the Constitution means what it says, not what judges would like it to mean, is going to be called an 'extremist.' That person will be said to be 'out of the mainstream.' But the mainstream is itself the problem.”

“An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.”

“A mood of constructive criticism being upon me, I propose forthwith that the method of choosing legislators now prevailing in the United States be abandoned and that the method used in choosing juries be substituted. That is to say, I propose that the men who make our laws be chosen by chance and against will of all the rest of us, as now.”

“Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in ʿreligionʾ mean nothing unless they make our actual behavior better.”

“People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.”

“To consider this desirable would be to delight in the slaughter of men; and he who delights in the slaughter of men cannot get his will in the kingdom.”