My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere… — 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
From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a… — 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
