Government Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.

— Abraham Lincoln

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

— Abraham Lincoln

Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.

— Abraham Lincoln

A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

— Abraham Lincoln

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens.

— Abraham Lincoln

I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.

— Abraham Lincoln

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

— Abraham Lincoln

In all that people can do for themselves, government ought not to interfere.

— Abraham Lincoln

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more…

— Abraham Lincoln

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we…

— Abraham Lincoln

While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the…

— Abraham Lincoln

The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and…

— Abraham Lincoln

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious…

— Abraham Lincoln

The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative…

— Abraham Lincoln

It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great…

— Abraham Lincoln

To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any…

— Abraham Lincoln

...I do not mean to say that this general government is charged with the duty of redressing or preventing all the wrongs…

— Abraham Lincoln

Government, possessing the power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and…

— Abraham Lincoln

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they…

— Abraham Lincoln

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an…

— Abraham Lincoln

Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run…

— Abraham Lincoln

But I must add that the U.S. government must not, as by this order, undertake to run the churches. When an individual,…

— Abraham Lincoln

Negro equality, Fudge!! How long in the Government of a God great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue…

— Abraham Lincoln

It is my ambition and desire to so administer the affairs of the government while I remain President that if at the…

— Abraham Lincoln

Most governments have been based, practically, on the denial of equal rights of menours began, by affirming those rights. They said, some…

— Abraham Lincoln

I believe each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruit of his labor, so far…

— Abraham Lincoln

I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, that the working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they…

— Abraham Lincoln

And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose…

— Abraham Lincoln

In using the strong hand, as now compelled to do, the government has a difficult duty to perform. At the very best,…

— Abraham Lincoln

By adoption of these principles, the long-felt want for a uniform medium will be satisfied. The taxpayers will be saved immense sums…

— Abraham Lincoln

“Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion and you allow him…

— Abraham Lincoln

The provision of the Constitution giving the war making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons:…

— Abraham Lincoln

I hear you have abolitionists here. We have a few in Illinois, but we shot one the other day.

— Abraham Lincoln

Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".

— Abraham Lincoln

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

— Abraham Lincoln

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burthens.

— Abraham Lincoln

If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.

— Abraham Lincoln

“You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.”

— Abraham Lincoln

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

— Abraham Lincoln

In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into…

— Abraham Lincoln