When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life.
Abraham LincolnSuch will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.
Abraham LincolnA capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.
Abraham Lincoln