The President to-night has a dream:He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon… — Abraham Lincoln American slavery Copy Share Image
I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom,… — Abraham Lincoln Christian Copy Share Image
Our republican system was meant for a homogeneous people. As long as blacks continue to live with the whites they constitute a… — Abraham Lincoln Challenges Copy Share Image
The president is the cube of ice one places in the pot of a houseplant, providing a steady amount of nourishment over… — Abraham Lincoln Advice Copy Share Image
Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world...enabling us to converse… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I have never united myself to any church because I found difficulty in giving my assent without mental reservation to the long,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds… — Abraham Lincoln Affection Copy Share Image
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I… — Abraham Lincoln Ambition Copy Share Image
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor… — Abraham Lincoln Capitalism Copy Share Image
The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no… — Abraham Lincoln Children Copy Share Image
When I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of… — Abraham Lincoln Age Copy Share Image
You think slavery is right and ought to be extended; while we think it is wrong and ought to be restricted. That… — Abraham Lincoln Civil war Copy Share Image
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him… — Abraham Lincoln Invasion 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 American education Copy Share Image
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but… — Abraham Lincoln Atheism Copy Share Image
“Towering genius disdains a beaten path... It sees no distinction in adding story to story... It scorns to tread in the footsteps… — Abraham Lincoln Beaten path Copy Share Image
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I… — Abraham Lincoln Ambition Copy Share Image
Remembering that Peter denied his Lord with an oath, after most solemnly protesting that he never would, I will not swear I… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
But the proclamation, as law, either is valid, or is not valid. If it is not valid, it needs no retraction. If… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I know there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know that… — Abraham Lincoln America Copy Share Image
I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always… — Abraham Lincoln Abolitionist Copy Share Image
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A good, real, unrestrained, hearty laugh is a sort of glorified internal massage, performed rapidly and automatically. It manipulates and revitalizes corners… — Abraham Lincoln Comedy Copy Share Image
I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the… — Abraham Lincoln Friendship Copy Share Image
A fellow once came to me to ask for an appointment as a minister abroad. Finding he could not get that, he… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is… — Abraham Lincoln Attorney Copy Share Image
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of… — Abraham Lincoln American civil war Copy Share Image
If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the substance of… — Abraham Lincoln Altars Copy Share Image
I have neither time nor disposition to enter into discussion with the Friend, and end this occasion by suggesting for her consideration… — Abraham Lincoln Atheism Copy Share Image
I am not a very sentimental man; and the best sentiment I can think of is, that if you collect the signatures… — Abraham Lincoln Autobiography Copy Share Image
Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a… — Abraham Lincoln Balance Copy Share Image
I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of… — Abraham Lincoln Compromise Copy Share Image
