In using the strong hand, as now compelled to do, the government has a difficult duty to perform. At the very best,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Capital has its proper place and is entitled to every protection. The wages of men should be recognized in the structure of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I hold that if the Almighty had ever made a set of men that should do all the eating and none of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
While we are grateful to all the brave men and officers for the events of the past few days, we should, above… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Why don't you laugh? If I did not laugh I should die, and you need this medicine as much as I do. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
By the 'mud-sill' theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise him… — 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
Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The provision of the Constitution giving the war making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons:… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. "Why do you try to make friends of them?" asked an… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the Declaration of Independence that all should have an equal… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps… — 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
