The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves โ in their separate, and individual capacities.
Abraham LincolnI hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me
Abraham LincolnWe live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.
Abraham Lincoln