Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.Abraham Lincoln
We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'Abraham Lincoln
I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.Abraham Lincoln
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.Benjamin Franklin
We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.Benjamin Franklin
Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.Bernard Shaw