Political Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.

— Abraham Lincoln

Politics, as a trade, finds most and leaves nearly all dishonest.

— Abraham Lincoln

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

— Abraham Lincoln

The political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right.

— Abraham Lincoln

What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried

— Abraham Lincoln

Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".

— Abraham Lincoln

Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.

— Abraham Lincoln

We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the…

— Abraham Lincoln

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious…

— Abraham Lincoln

Our political problem now is, "Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?"

— Abraham Lincoln

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds,…

— Abraham Lincoln

It is not the qualified voters, but the qualified voters who choose to vote, that constitute political power.

— Abraham Lincoln

Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil...

— Abraham Lincoln

I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in…

— Abraham Lincoln

Let us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within…

— Abraham Lincoln

I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social…

— Abraham Lincoln

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view…

— Abraham Lincoln

Received as I am by the members of a legislature the majority of whom do not agree with me in political sentiments,…

— Abraham Lincoln

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with…

— Abraham Lincoln

Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil,…

— Abraham Lincoln

I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the…

— Abraham Lincoln