I would despise myself if I supposed myself ready to deal less liberally with an adversary than I was willing to be treated myself.

Abraham Lincoln

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms, (by no means excluding females.)

Public opinion is founded, to a great extent, on a property basis. What lessens the value of property is opposed, what enhances its value is favored.

In great contests, each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. ... that of being truly esteemed of my fellow‑men.

What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?

Dalai LamaSpiritual Leader

Elon MuskBusinessman