What constitutes the bulwark of our liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea-coasts, our army and our… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Thoughtful men must feel that the fate of civilization upon this continent is involved in the issue of our contest. Among the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them. To deny… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It is not our frowning battlements...or the strength our gallant and disciplined army? These are not our reliance against a resumption of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Well, I suppose you know that men will stand a good deal when they are flattered. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
While I have often said that all men out to be free, yet I would allow those colored persons to be slaves… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Never stir up litigation, a worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this, who can be more nearly a… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free. — 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
And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The President to-night has a dream:He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in… — 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
