Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.Abraham Lincoln
When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government - that is despotism.Abraham Lincoln
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.Abraham Lincoln
He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.Abraham Lincoln
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.Albert Einstein
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.Albert Einstein
