Wish Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.

— Abraham Lincoln

I am always for the man who wishes to work.

— Abraham Lincoln

I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction…

— Abraham Lincoln

I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.

— Abraham Lincoln

I have got you together to hear what I have written down. I do not wish your advice about the main matterfor…

— Abraham Lincoln

As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which…

— Abraham Lincoln

I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.

— Abraham Lincoln

I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war.

— Abraham Lincoln

Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a…

— Abraham Lincoln

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

We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we…

— Abraham Lincoln

If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with;…

— Abraham Lincoln

Do the people of the South really entertain fears that a Republican administration would, directly, or indirectly, interfere with their slaves, or…

— Abraham Lincoln

I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to…

— Abraham Lincoln

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

No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is…

— Abraham Lincoln

So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon…

— Abraham Lincoln

I do not wish to be misunderstood upon this subject of slavery in this country. I suppose it may long exist, and…

— Abraham Lincoln

It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to…

— Abraham Lincoln

It is most cheering and encouraging for me to know that in the efforts which I have made and am making for…

— Abraham Lincoln

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing…

— Abraham Lincoln

As to your kind wishes for myself, allow me to say I can not enter the ring on the money basis--first, because,…

— Abraham Lincoln