**** VGA 1280 x 1024 **** 80 x 32 Text Avoid popularity if you would have peace. - Abraham Lincoln Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets. - Abraham Lincoln Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. - Abraham Lincoln Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. - Abraham Lincoln Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. - Abraham Lincoln Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them. - Abraham Lincoln 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 Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. - Abraham Lincoln Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. - Abraham Lincoln