That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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
I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Through their deeds, the dead of battle have spoken more eloquently for themselves than any of the living ever could. But we… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the war, and for some time, the use of colored troops was not contemplated; and how the change… — 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
[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We must believe that He permits it [this war] for some wise purpose of his own, mysterious and unknown to us; and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion and you allow him… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government; and so to resist… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy... — 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
The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always;… — 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
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