There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It doesn't mater if you're a slow walker, so long as you don't walk backwards. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I have really got it into my head to try to be United States Senator, and, if I could have your support,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ‘all men are created equal,' and that there… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race "In the sweat of thy face… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he [the president] is the representative of the people. He is elected by… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn. — 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
If ever this free people, if this Government itself is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this incessant human wriggle and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
As a general rule never take your whole fee in advance, nor any more than a small retainer. When fully paid beforehand,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Negroes, like other people, act upon motives. Why should they do anything for us, if we will do nothing for them? If… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I do not deny the possibility that the people may err in an election; but if they do, the true [cure] is… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they'd have to sleep… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If the American people could learn what I know of the fierce hatred of the priests of Rome against our institutions, our… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If both factions, or neither, shall abuse you, you will probably be about right. Beware of being assailed by one and praised… — 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
