Abraham Lincoln: “Power can be very seductive, and it often corrupts those who wield it.”

As a general rule I abstain from reading the reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

The question is, will it be wiser to take it as it is and help to improve it, or to reject and disperse it?