charity - quotes

Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet), 1694-1778

was a French author, humanist, rationalist, and satirist

The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.

( Letter, 1769 )

Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865

was a 16th president of US

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds. . . to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.