Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If ever this free people, if this Government itself is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this incessant human wriggle and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Fellow countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Senator [Stephen] Douglas is of world-wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who have been of his party for… — 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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