By adoption of these principles, the long-felt want for a uniform medium will be satisfied. The taxpayers will be saved immense sums… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest amongst us are… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In all that people can do for themselves, government ought not to interfere. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Government should stand behind its currency and credit and the bank deposits of the nation. No individual should suffer a loss of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but holding it a sound maxim, that it is better… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
No duty is more imperative for the government than the duty it ;owes the people to furnish them with a sound and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“I consider the central idea pervading this struggle is the necessity that is upon us, of proving that popular govenment is not… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Most governments have been based, practically, on the denial of equal rights of menours began, by affirming those rights. They said, some… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Our political problem now is, "Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?" — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous... — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.” — 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
