You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If we exchange one dollar, we both have one dollar each. But if we exchange one good thought, we both have two… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never expose their quarrels on either side…allow bygones to be bygones, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
You are green, it is true; but they are green also. You are all green alike. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
As the problems are new, we must disenthrall ourselves from the past. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well. — 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