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
I believe the Bible is the best gift God ever gave to man. All the good from the Savior of the world… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Let us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
All creation is a mine, and every man a miner. The whole earth, and all within it, upon it, and round about… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In this troublesome world, we are never quite satisfied. When you were here, I thought you hindered me some in attending to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
...I do not mean to say that this general government is charged with the duty of redressing or preventing all the wrongs… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It may be affirmed, without extravagance, that the free institutions we enjoy, have developed the powers, and improved the condition, of our… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Let us re-adopt the Declaration of Independence, and with it, the practices, and policy, which harmonize with it. Let north and south… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them. To deny… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
As long as the Almighty permitted intelligent men, created in his image and likeness, to fight in public and kill each other… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead,… — 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
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
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
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
I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
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
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
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
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
I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share