If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.
Abraham LincolnNor must Uncle Sam's Web-feet be forgotten. At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broadbay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow muddy bayou, and wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been, and made their tracks.
Abraham LincolnHonest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.
Abraham Lincoln