I belive that people should fight for what they believe and only what they believe. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Upon the subject of education ... I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis.… — 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
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth always lies within their vision. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be… — 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
The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their… — 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
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
When I left Springfield [to become President] I asked the people to pray for me. I was not a Christian. When I… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Its authors meant it to be... a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
...Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man-this race and that race and the other race being… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It is most cheering and encouraging for me to know that in the efforts which I have made and am making for… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people to the idea of indiscriminate amalgamation of the white… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
...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 must remember that the people of all the States are entitled to all the privileges and immunities of the citizen of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope… — 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
Singular indeed the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one among them to be found, to raise… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if… — 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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