He raised his hands, not to strike, but in benediction. Lincoln was the grandest figure of the fiercest civil war. He is the gentlest memory of our world. – Robert G. Ingersoll

Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. – Thomas Jefferson, letter, 1796