If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Whether you look for the good or look for the bad in a person, you'll find it." A. Lincoln — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Nothing is more damaging to you than to do something that you believe is wrong. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number. — 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
I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else. — 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
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
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
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
I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
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
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
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
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
I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
