It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I am satisfied that when the Almighty wants me to do or not do any particular thing, He finds a way of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
My Dear McClellan, if you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to… — 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
The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want… — 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
And I am glad to know that there is a system of labor - where the laborer can strike if he wants… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
You already know I desire that neither Father or Mother shall be in want of any comfort either in health or sickness… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and… — 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
To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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
He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he [the president] is the representative of the people. He is elected by… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Every man is proud of what he does well; and no man is proud of what he does not do well. With… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to have them, he is perfectly logical… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
While I have often said that all men out to be free, yet I would allow those colored persons to be slaves… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
What are you gonna do for a face when the baboon wants his ass back? — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
When I lay down the reins of this administration, I want to have one friend left. And that friend is myself. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower… — 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
![“Now if you should hear any one say that Lincoln don't [sic] want to go to Congress, I wish you as a personal friend of mine, wouldtell him that you have reason to believe he is mistaken.” quote by Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c44/abraham-lincoln-88_believe_now-if-you-should-hear-any-one-say-that_2936764.jpg)
![“He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them; that he is penetrating, so far as lies in his power, the human soul, and eradicating the light of reason and the love of liberty, when he is in every possible way…” quote by Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/85e/abraham-lincoln-88_human-soul_he-stephen-douglas-is-blowing-out-the-mo_512193.jpg)
![“In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he [the president] is the representative of the people. He is elected by them, as well as congress is. But can he, in the nature [of] things, know the wants of the people, as well as three hundred other men, coming from all the various localities of the…” quote by Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d62/abraham-lincoln-88_certain_in-a-certain-sense-and-to-a-certain-exte_2645897.jpg)
![“Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?], any man might instantly use what another had invented; so that the inventor had no special advantage from his own invention. The patent system changed this…” quote by Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/449/abraham-lincoln-88_adoption_next-came-the-patent-laws-these-began-in_1828.jpg)
