I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

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• Abraham Lincoln:

  Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never

• Abraham Lincoln:

  The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

• Abraham Lincoln:

  I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the cou

• Abraham Lincoln:

  Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

• Abraham Lincoln:

  Never regret what you don't write.

• Abraham Lincoln:

  Don't swap horses in crossing a stream.

• Abraham Lincoln:

  A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.

• Tom Stoppard:

  Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect.

• Tom Stoppard:

  Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.

• Tom Stoppard:

  My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation