Freedom Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty

— Abraham Lincoln

Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.

— Abraham Lincoln

We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued.

— Abraham Lincoln

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

— Abraham Lincoln

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

— Abraham Lincoln

What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?

— Abraham Lincoln

If you love something, set it free.

— Abraham Lincoln

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought

— Abraham Lincoln

I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.

— Abraham Lincoln

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain…

— Abraham Lincoln

What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?

— Abraham Lincoln

I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.

— Abraham Lincoln

Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.

— Abraham Lincoln

Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both.

— Abraham Lincoln

We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

— Abraham Lincoln

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

— Abraham Lincoln

We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the…

— Abraham Lincoln

The Democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with another mans right of…

— Abraham Lincoln

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf…

— Abraham Lincoln

I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the…

— Abraham Lincoln

It may be affirmed, without extravagance, that the free institutions we enjoy, have developed the powers, and improved the condition, of our…

— Abraham Lincoln

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them…

— Abraham Lincoln

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and…

— Abraham Lincoln

Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to…

— Abraham Lincoln

I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states, due to the Union of the states, and…

— Abraham Lincoln

Without the Constitution and the Union, we could not have attained the result; but even these, are not the primary cause of…

— Abraham Lincoln

Let us re-adopt the Declaration of Independence, and with it, the practices, and policy, which harmonize with it. Let north and south…

— Abraham Lincoln

I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the…

— Abraham Lincoln

"We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued. The slaves were undeniably a element of strength to those who had their…

— Abraham Lincoln

As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and…

— Abraham Lincoln

I am glad I made the late race. It gave me a hearing on the great and durable question of the age,…

— Abraham Lincoln

“I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the very sternest necessity…

— Abraham Lincoln

We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other…

— Abraham Lincoln

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to…

— Abraham Lincoln

We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the…

— Abraham Lincoln

“These [the armed forces] are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land. All of them may be…

— Abraham Lincoln

“The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want…

— Abraham Lincoln

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

— Abraham Lincoln

The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.

— Abraham Lincoln

Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms.

— Abraham Lincoln