...I am exceedingly anxious that this Union, the Constitution, and the liberties of the people shall be perpetuated in accordance with the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
[I]f the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting, the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states, due to the Union of the states, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If there is no military need for the building, leave it alone, neither putting anyone in or out of it, except on… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In using the strong hand, as now compelled to do, the government has a difficult duty to perform. At the very best,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I hold that if the Almighty had ever made a set of men that should do all the eating and none of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own,… — Abraham Lincoln 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 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 Copy Share Image
I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong. God gave man a… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
At 50, if you are on a diet on your birthday, you can't eat a piece of your birthday cake. So grab… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... He will assume control of your… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
When I have a particular case in hand, I have that motive and feel an interest in the case, feel an interest… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands. — Abraham Lincoln 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 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 Copy Share Image
The President responded very impressively, saying that he was deeply sensible of his need of Divine assistance. He had sometime thought that… — Abraham Lincoln 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, then they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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