“I believe the declaration that ‘all men are created equal’ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.” MenBelieveI BelievePrinciplesEqualInstitutionsFundamentalsDeclarationBe A SlaveFundamental Principles Book:The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition) Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)
“It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought to be chosen. But wealth does this in only a portion of the actual cases. Elsewhere the desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption. There must be thousands of conjunctures in which a wealth-bound man must be a slave, whilst a man for whom poverty has no terrors becomes a freeman.” MenGivingDoeEndsDesireEnergyLosesWealthPovertyCasesOughtExerciseGainsIdealsSlaveBoundsTerrorCorruptionChosenChiefsPortionsCowardiceElsewhereBe A SlaveFreemanBreeders Book:The Varieties of Religious Experience Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience