It Is Harder To Preserve Than To

Learn From Your Mistakes And Build On Your Successes.

There Never Has Yet Existed A Wealthy And Civilized Society In Which One Portion Of The Community Did Not, In Point Of Fact, Live On The Labor Of The Other.

I Never Use The Word Nation In Speaking Of The United States. I Always Use The Word Union Or Confederacy. We Are Not A Nation But A Union, A Confederacy Of Equal And Sovereign States.

Democracy, As I Understand It, Requires Me To Sacrifice Myself For The Masses, Not To Them. Who Knows Not That If You Would Save The People, You Must Often Oppose Them?

It Would Be Well For Those Interested To Reflect Whether There Now Exists, Or Ever Has Existed, A Wealthy And Civilized Community In Which One Portion Did Not Live On The Labor Of Another; And Whether The Form In Which Slavery Exists In The South Is Not But One Modification Of This Universal Condition... Let Those Who Are Interested Remember That Labor Is The Only Source Of Wealth, And How Small A Portion Of It, In All Old And Civilized Countries, Even The Best Governed, Is Left To Those By Whose Labor Wealth Is Created.