...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
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
As to your kind wishes for myself, allow me to say I can not enter the ring on the money basis--first, because,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The provision of the Constitution giving the war making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons:… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
This is essentially a people's contest... whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men - to lift artificial weights from… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
You can not fail in any laudable object, unless you allow your mind to be improperly directed. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and… — 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