"Any society that takes away from those..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.”

“I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the emancipation proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the Acts of Congress.' If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make it an Executive duty to re-enslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it.”

“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.”

“To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.”

“This is really America in therapy, people trying to get themselves together and be whole.”

“Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.”

“The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.”

“Economists are people who wonder if what works in reality can also work in theory.”

“If you want more of something, subsidize it; if you want less of something, tax it.”