I against my brother I and my brother against our cousin, my brother and our cousin against the neighbors all of us against the foreigner. – Arabic Proverb
The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor. – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The important thing today is not what we say of Lincoln but what Lincoln would say of us if he were here in this hour and could note the drift and tendency in American life and American politics. – Stephen Samuel Wise