"If there is anything which it is..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.”

“A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.”

“The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous.”

“Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.”

“All students, members of the faculty, and public officials in both Mississippi and the Nation will be able, it is hoped, to return to their normal activities with full confidence in the integrity of American law. This is as it should be, for our Nation is founded on the principle that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny.”

“Empire and liberty.”

“Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.”

“Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.”

“A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support.”