When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I shall not do more than I can, and I shall do all I can to save the government, which is my… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
...I do not mean to say that this general government is charged with the duty of redressing or preventing all the wrongs… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction ...… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states, due to the Union of the states, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
[If not re-elected in 1864] then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In using the strong hand, as now compelled to do, the government has a difficult duty to perform. At the very best,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
No duty is more imperative for the government than the duty it ;owes the people to furnish them with a sound and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and that by religious men, who are equally certain that they represent… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the war, and for some time, the use of colored troops was not contemplated; and how the change… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
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