Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.
Abraham LincolnIf you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
Abraham LincolnPresident Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. "Why do you try to make friends of them?" asked an associate. "You should try to destroy them." "Am I not destroying my enemies," Lincoln gently replied, "when I make them my friends?"
Abraham Lincoln