The meanest man in the world,” he remarked, “is the man who forgets the old friends that helped him on an early day and over early difficulties. - Doris Kearns Goodwin

Liberty produces wealth, and wealth destroys liberty,” Henry Demarest Lloyd

With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan — to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.

Don’t hit till you have to; but, when you do hit, hit hard.