...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 all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they… — 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
Let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
...I do not mean to say that this general government is charged with the duty of redressing or preventing all the wrongs… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government; and so to resist… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence? — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Of our political revolution of '76, we all are justly proud. It has given us a degree of political freedom, far exceeding… — 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 the union of these States, and the liberties of this people, shall be lost, it is but little to any one… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious… — 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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