The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity.
Abraham LincolnSending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.
Abraham LincolnIf you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.
Abraham LincolnThis is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.
Abraham LincolnMost governments have been based, practically, on the denial of equal rights of menours began, by affirming those rights. They said, some men are too ignorant, and vicious, to share in government. Possibly so, said we; and, by your system, you would always keep them ignorant, and vicious. We proposed to give all a chance; and we expected the weak to grow stronger, the ignorant wiser; and all better, and happier together.
Abraham Lincoln