Politics Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.

— Abraham Lincoln

Politics, as a trade, finds most and leaves nearly all dishonest.

— Abraham Lincoln

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.

— Abraham Lincoln

It is much easier to ride a horse in the direction it is going.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— 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

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— 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

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

— Abraham Lincoln

The political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right.

— 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

The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of…

— Abraham Lincoln

Now if you should hear any one say that Lincoln don't [sic] want to go to Congress, I wish you as a…

— 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

I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the…

— 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

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

— 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

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

Senator [Stephen] Douglas is of world-wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who have been of his party for…

— Abraham Lincoln

“I consider the central idea pervading this struggle is the necessity that is upon us, of proving that popular govenment is not…

— Abraham Lincoln

And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves…

— 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

The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and…

— 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

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

— Abraham Lincoln

“By such examples, by instances of the perpetrators of such acts going unpunished, the lawless in spirit, are encouraged to become lawless…

— Abraham Lincoln

Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

. . . peace is a thing which a person must be willing to fight for . . .

— Abraham Lincoln

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— 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

You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time,…

— Abraham Lincoln