"Human-nature will not change...." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.”

“Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed”

“And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.”

“The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction as to the merits and successes of others, and never in Addition as to their own.”

“A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.”

“It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.”

“The world had taken a deep breath and was having doubts about continuing to revolve.”

“Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.”

“The trouble with the theory [of limited and divided government] is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. This is where the living and breathing constitution comes from. It is modified by its environment, necessitated by its tasks, shaped to its functions by the sheer pressure of life.”