“I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.” — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way. — Abraham Lincoln Determination Copy Share Image
My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance. — Abraham Lincoln Inspirational Copy Share Image
If I am killed, I can die by once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... the fate of humanity is in… — Abraham Lincoln Child Copy Share Image
How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg… — Abraham Lincoln Dog Copy Share Image
Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue. — Abraham Lincoln Civil war Copy Share Image
The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down but I bite my lip and keep quiet. — Abraham Lincoln Animals Copy Share Image
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 Bankers and banks Copy Share Image
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let… — Abraham Lincoln Charity Copy Share Image
There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed too, if he allows his mind… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that… — Abraham Lincoln Confidence Copy Share Image
Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be… — Abraham Lincoln Business Copy Share Image
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 Breeders Copy Share Image
Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
My earlier views at the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures, have become clearer… — Abraham Lincoln Bible Copy Share Image
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view… — Abraham Lincoln Education Copy Share Image
no man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention, still less can he afford… — Abraham Lincoln Consequence Copy Share Image
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 Blessed Copy Share Image
We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and have vainly… — Abraham Lincoln Blessing Copy Share Image
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 Anxious Copy Share Image
I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the… — Abraham Lincoln Atheism Copy Share Image
The available supply of gold and silver being wholly inadequate to permit the issuance of coins of intrinsic value or paper currency… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“I consider the central idea pervading this struggle is the necessity that is upon us, of proving that popular govenment is not… — Abraham Lincoln Free government Copy Share Image
Your good mother tells me you are feeling very badly in your new situation. Allow me to assure you it is a… — Abraham Lincoln Certainty Copy Share Image
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