Daniel CE Swanson

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“I fear me, I fear me: this is one of the profoundly damned. I blurt out something that should, perhaps, be withheld for several hundred pages—but that damned thing was the size of an elephant.”
― Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned

“If you want to find out what a man is to the bottom, give him power. Any man can stand adversity — only a great man can stand prosperity. It is the glory of Abraham Lincoln that he never abused power only on the side of mercy”
― Robert Ingersoll

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
― Abraham Lincoln