Honest Statesmanship

"Honest statesmanship is the wise employment

of individual meanness for the public good."

--Abraham Lincoln

A Universal Feeling

"A universal feeling, whether ill or well formed,

cannot be safely disregarded."

--Abraham Lincoln

Explanatory Explanations

"I fear explanations explanatory of things explained."

--Abraham Lincoln

Let an Elephant Run

"When you have got an elephant by the hind legs

and he is trying to run away,

it's best to let him run."

--Abraham Lincoln

Work

"My father taught me to work;

he did not teach me to love it."

--Abraham Lincoln

The Smallest Idea

"He can compress the most words

into the smallest idea of any man I ever met."

--Abraham Lincoln