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
We must settle this question now -- whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It is my ambition and desire to so administer the affairs of the government while I remain President that if at the… — 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
The United States government must not undertake to run the Churches. When an individual, in the Church or out of it, becomes… — 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
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and… — 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
But I must add that the U.S. government must not, as by this order, undertake to run the churches. When an individual,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The master not only governs the slave without his consent, but he governs him by a set of rules altogether different from… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The Presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses; and [Zachary] Taylor like others, found thorns within it.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all… — 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
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Government, possessing the power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
...I do not mean to say that this general government is charged with the duty of redressing or preventing all the wrongs… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious… — 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… — 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
We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of… — 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
Negro equality, Fudge!! How long in the Government of a God great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Now if you should hear any one say that Lincoln don't [sic] want to go to Congress, I wish you as a… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great… — 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
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
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
I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
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
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
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
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
I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
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