Liberty Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— 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

If the American people could learn what I know of the fierce hatred of the priests of Rome against our institutions, our…

— 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

If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in…

— 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

What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not...the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of…

— Abraham Lincoln

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

— Abraham Lincoln

“It is not in our forming battlements or bristling seacoasts, or our Army and Navy that makes America great - but rather…

— Abraham Lincoln

The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements…

— 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

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

Without the Constitution and the Union, we could not have attained the result; but even these, are not the primary cause 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 do not mean to say that this general government is charged with the duty of redressing or preventing all the wrongs…

— 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

It is not our frowning battlements...or the strength our gallant and disciplined army? These are not our reliance against a resumption of…

— 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

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

What constitutes the bulwark of our liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea-coasts, our army and our…

— 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

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

What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?

— Abraham Lincoln

I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.

— Abraham Lincoln

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

— Abraham Lincoln

Cling to liberty and right; battle fro them; leed for them; die for them, if need be; and have confidence in God.

— Abraham Lincoln

Don't kneel to me, that is not right. You must kneel to God only, and thank Him for the liberty you will…

— Abraham Lincoln

So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government; and so to resist…

— Abraham Lincoln

I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so…

— Abraham Lincoln

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the…

— Abraham Lincoln

No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the…

— Abraham Lincoln

The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also. With a reliance on Providence,…

— Abraham Lincoln