The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Submitted to the Sec. of War. On principle I dislike an oath which requires a man to swear he has not done… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
You are green, it is true; but they are green also. You are all green alike. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The time has come when I am for everybody fighting the rebels. Let Indians fight them; let the Negroes fight them; and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you. — 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
I don't s'pose anybody on earth likes gingerbread better'n I do-and gets less'n I do. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take… — 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
And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement… — 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
