"If elected I shall be thankful; if..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued.”

“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”

“I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia.”

“Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.”

“I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.”

“Against the background of the Obama administration' s negotiating what can turn out to be the most catastrophic international agreement in the nation's history, to complain about protocol is to put questions of etiquette above questions of annihilation.”

“Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.”

“Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love. Yet love me--wilt thou? Open thine heart wide, And fold within, the wet wings of thy dove.”

“All I care to know about a man is that he is a human being... he can't be any worse.”