Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.
Lincoln, Abraham. "Speech at Cincinnati, Ohio." 17 Sept. 1859. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, edited by Roy P. Basler, vol. 3, Rutgers University Press, 1953, p. 459.
Asked why he wanted to legalize gambling casinos in Chicago:
Abraham Lincoln was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy.