Abraham Lincoln — "I care not for a man's religion, or his lack of it, so long as his life is right…"

"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser—in fees, expenses, and waste of time."

"Negroes have a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but not a right to social and political equality with whites."

"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 h…"

"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."