"I am not an accomplished lawyer...." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.”

“His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.”

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

“Be faithful and true of word; let thy walk be plain and lowly: thou wilt get on, though in savage land. If thy words be not faithful and true, thy walk plain and lowly, wilt thou get on, though in thine own home? Standing, see these words ranged before thee; driving, see them written upon the yoke. Then thou wilt get on.”

“As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.”

“When men lack a sense of awe, there will be disaster.”

“Where there's no law, there's no bread.”

“Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.”

“If you step out of a tenth story window you do not break the law of gravity, you confirm it.”