In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it. – Charles Caleb Colton
I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known. – Abraham Lincoln
It is the final test of a gentleman—his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him. – William Lyon Phelps, quoted in Golden Book Magazine, July 1935
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality. – John Locke