"I am for . . . each..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.”

“I believe I shall never be old enough to speak without embarrassment when I have nothing to talk about.”

“In my entire life I have only met four "perfect" people... and I disliked them all.”

“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”

“Either give me more wine or leave me alone.”

“The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.”

“The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.”

“We've gone astray from first principles. We've lost sight of the rule that individual freedom and ingenuity are at the very core of everything that we've accomplished. Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.”

“Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world.”