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
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 all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Why don't you laugh? If I did not laugh I should die, and you need this medicine as much as I do. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Submitted to the Sec. of War. On principle I dislike an oath which requires a man to swear he has not done… — 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
I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Gen. Schurz thinks I was a little cross in my late note to you. If I was, I ask pardon. If I… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I cannot speak so confidently about the fighting qualities of the Eastern men, or what are called Yankees - not knowing myself… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The time has come when I am for everybody fighting the rebels. Let Indians fight them; let the Negroes fight them; and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise him… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people to the idea of indiscriminate amalgamation of the white… — 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
Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The provision of the Constitution giving the war making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons:… — Abraham Lincoln 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 Copy Share Image
Young man, if God gives me four years more to rule this country, I believe it will become what it ought to… — 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
