--- title: "Best Politics Sayings by Abraham Lincoln" description: "108 Politics quotes by Abraham Lincoln. Plus more from Abraham Lincoln and more Politics sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d5/abraham-lincoln-88_abraham-lincoln_i-am-humble-abraham-lincoln-i-have-been_1920027.png" --- > [I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/i-am-humble-abraham-lincoln-i-have-been-solicited-by-my-friends-to/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d5/abraham-lincoln-88_abraham-lincoln_i-am-humble-abraham-lincoln-i-have-been_1920027.png) > [We must settle this question now -- whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/we-must-settle-this-question-now-whether-in-a-free-government-the/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/951/abraham-lincoln-88_break_we-must-settle-this-question-now-whether_572635.png) > [A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/a-house-divided-against-itself-cannot-stand-i-believe-this-government/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/891/abraham-lincoln-88_belief_a-house-divided-against-itself-cannot-st_2551618.png) > [It is my ambition and desire to so administer the affairs of the government while I remain President that if at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/it-is-my-ambition-and-desire-to-so-administer-the-affairs-of-the/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/25a/abraham-lincoln-88_ambition_it-is-my-ambition-and-desire-to-so-admin_1282778.jpg) > [As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/as-an-individual-who-undertakes-to-live-by-borrowing-soon-finds-his/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f6/abraham-lincoln-88_borrowing_as-an-individual-who-undertakes-to-live_1506431.jpg) > [The United States government must not undertake to run the Churches. When an individual, in the Church or out of it, becomes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/the-united-states-government-must-not-undertake-to-run-the-churches/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/180/abraham-lincoln-88_government_the-united-states-government-must-not-un_726861.jpg) > [We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/we-have-as-all-will-agree-a-free-government-where-every-man-has-a/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/975/abraham-lincoln-88_agree_we-have-as-all-will-agree-a-free-governm_1577860.png) > [That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/that-this-nation-under-god-shall-have-a-new-birth-of-freedom-and-that/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c49/abraham-lincoln-88_freedom_that-this-nation-under-god-shall-have-a_3031716.png) > [“I consider the central idea pervading this struggle is the necessity that is upon us, of proving that popular govenment is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/i-consider-the-central-idea-pervading-this-struggle-is-the-necessity/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1a0/abraham-lincoln-88_free-government_i-consider-the-central-idea-pervading-th_1708556.jpg) > [But I must add that the U.S. government must not, as by this order, undertake to run the churches. When an individual,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/but-i-must-add-that-the-u-s-government-must-not-as-by-this-order/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bdc/abraham-lincoln-88_add_but-i-must-add-that-the-u-s-government-m_3021236.png) > [The master not only governs the slave without his consent, but he governs him by a set of rules altogether different from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/the-master-not-only-governs-the-slave-without-his-consent-but-he/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f25/abraham-lincoln-88_consent_the-master-not-only-governs-the-slave-wi_1045115.png) > [There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/there-is-an-important-sense-in-which-government-is-distinctive-from/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/543/abraham-lincoln-88_administration_there-is-an-important-sense-in-which-gov_3108971.png) > [ The Presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses; and \[Zachary\] Taylor like others, found thorns within it.… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/the-presidency-even-to-the-most-experienced-politicians-is-no-bed-of/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fb7/abraham-lincoln-88_bed_the-presidency-even-to-the-most-experien_929510.jpg) > [I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/i-go-for-all-sharing-the-privileges-of-the-government-who-assist-in-2/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6aa/abraham-lincoln-88_admitting_i-go-for-all-sharing-the-privileges-of-t_1263691.png) > [Government should stand behind its currency and credit and the bank deposits of the nation. No individual should suffer a loss of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/government-should-stand-behind-its-currency-and-credit-and-the-bank/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e6a/abraham-lincoln-88_bankruptcy_government-should-stand-behind-its-curre_1548493.jpg) > [This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/this-country-with-its-institutions-belongs-to-the-people-who-inhabit-3/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/84d/abraham-lincoln-88_constitutional-right_this-country-with-its-institutions-belon_2866282.png) > [Government, possessing the power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/government-possessing-the-power-to-create-and-issue-currency-and/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c44/abraham-lincoln-88_business_government-possessing-the-power-to-creat_3065097.png) > [...I do not mean to say that this general government is charged with the duty of redressing or preventing all the wrongs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/i-do-not-mean-to-say-that-this-general-government-is-charged-with-the/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/775/abraham-lincoln-88_duty_i-do-not-mean-to-say-that-this-general-g_226723.png) > [We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/we-find-ourselves-under-the-government-of-a-system-of-political/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68c/abraham-lincoln-88_ends_we-find-ourselves-under-the-government-o_1089344.png) > [While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/while-the-people-retain-their-virtue-and-vigilance-no-administration/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6db/abraham-lincoln-88_administration_while-the-people-retain-their-virtue-and_2970.jpg) > [Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/concede-that-the-new-government-of-louisiana-is-only-to-what-it/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b00/abraham-lincoln-88_egg_concede-that-the-new-government-of-louis_2064151.png) > [We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/we-were-proclaiming-ourselves-political-hypocrites-before-the-world/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b27/abraham-lincoln-88_fostering_we-were-proclaiming-ourselves-political_253307.png) > [When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/when-the-white-man-governs-himself-that-is-self-government-but-when/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d1/abraham-lincoln-88_another-man_when-the-white-man-governs-himself-that_3126089.png) > [The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/the-slave-breeders-and-slave-traders-are-a-small-odious-and-detested/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e5a/abraham-lincoln-88_breeders_the-slave-breeders-and-slave-traders-are_2532332.png) > [I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/i-am-not-nor-ever-have-been-in-favor-of-bringing-about-in-any-way-the/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5da/abraham-lincoln-88_equality_i-am-not-nor-ever-have-been-in-favor-of_1690453.png) > [Negro equality, Fudge!! How long in the Government of a God great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/negro-equality-fudge-how-long-in-the-government-of-a-god-great-enough/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/54a/abraham-lincoln-88_civil-war_negro-equality-fudge-how-long-in-the-gov_262313.jpg) > [ Now if you should hear any one say that Lincoln don't \[sic\] want to go to Congress, I wish you as a… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/now-if-you-should-hear-any-one-say-that-lincoln-don-t-sic-want-to-go/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c44/abraham-lincoln-88_believe_now-if-you-should-hear-any-one-say-that_2936764.png) > [It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/it-is-not-merely-for-to-day-but-for-all-time-to-come-that-we-should/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e98/abraham-lincoln-88_all-time_it-is-not-merely-for-to-day-but-for-all_836931.png) ## Other authors on Politics - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-thomas-jefferson-90435.jpg) Thomas Jefferson 395 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/politics/thomas-jefferson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-ronald-reagan-81107.jpg) Ronald Reagan 276 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/politics/ronald-reagan/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-barack-obama-16275.jpg) Barack Obama 249 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/politics/barack-obama/) - [Jarod Kintz 192 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/politics/jarod-kintz/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-rush-limbaugh-81741.jpg) Rush Limbaugh 182 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/politics/rush-limbaugh/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b012/author-james-madison-46533.jpg) James Madison 176 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/politics/james-madison/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-donald-trump-30060.jpg) Donald Trump 160 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/politics/donald-trump/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-noam-chomsky-71799.jpg) Noam Chomsky 158 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/politics/noam-chomsky/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-thomas-sowell-90605.jpg) Thomas Sowell 151 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/politics/thomas-sowell/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-narendra-modi-70220.jpg) Narendra Modi 141 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/politics/narendra-modi/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-p-j-o-rourke-184.jpg) P. J. O'Rourke 135 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/politics/p-j-o-rourke/) - [Steven Magee 132 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/politics/steven-magee/) ## More by 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, then they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/elections-belong-to-the-people-it-s-their-decision-if-they-decide-to/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) > [ Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then \[these?\],… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/next-came-the-patent-laws-these-began-in-england-in-1624-and-in-this/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) > [All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/all-that-i-am-or-ever-hope-to-be-i-owe-to-my-angel-mother/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) > [While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/while-the-people-retain-their-virtue-and-vigilance-no-administration/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) > [I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/i-could-not-have-slept-tonight-if-i-had-left-that-helpless-little/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) > [Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/let-us-at-all-times-remember-that-all-american-citizens-are-brothers/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) > [If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/if-you-wish-to-be-a-lawyer-attach-no-consequence-to-the-place-you-are/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) > [As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/as-we-keep-or-break-the-sabbath-day-we-nobly-save-or-meanly-lose-the/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) > [Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/tell-the-truth-and-you-won-t-have-so-much-to-remember/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) > [With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/with-high-hope-for-the-future-no-prediction-is-ventured/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) > [We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/we-know-southern-men-declare-that-their-slaves-are-better-off-than/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) > [I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/i-am-glad-to-see-that-a-system-of-labor-prevails-under-which-laborers/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) > [I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/i-don-t-like-that-man-i-must-get-to-know-him-better/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) > [In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/in-this-sad-world-of-ours-sorrow-comes-to-all-and-to-the-young-it/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) > [The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/the-man-does-not-live-who-is-more-devoted-to-peace-than-i-am-none-who/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/politics/abraham-lincoln/#itemlist", "name": "Best Politics Sayings by Abraham Lincoln", "numberOfItems": 28, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. 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