"I perhaps ought to say that individually..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln
I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.
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More on Politics
“An actor knows two important things - to be honest in what he is doing and to be in touch with the audience. That's not bad advice for a politician either.”
“That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.”
“Dont teach my boy poetry, an English mother recently wrote the Provost of Harrow. Dont teach my boy poetry; he is going to stand for Parliament. Well, perhaps she was rightbut if more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place to live on this Commencement Day of 1956.”
More on Freedom
“Anything that immobilizes you, gets in your way, or keeps you from your goals is all yours. You can throw it away anytime you choose.”
“Run from what's comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I'll be mad.”
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”