Abraham Lincoln

Quotes

• “In 1861, Abraham Lincoln told Congress that the 'leading object' of American government was 'to elevate the condition of...”
• “I have heard that in consequence of this 'sectional warfare', as Douglas calls it, Senator Mason of Va., had appeared in...”
• “A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started. He is going to sit where you are sitting, and when y...”
• “The party of Lincoln, called the Republican party, under its present name and organization is of recent origin. It is ad...”
• “The evidence reaching us from the country leaves no doubt that the material for the work is abundant, and that it needs ...”
• “It is in order that each of you may have through this free government which we have enjoyed, an open field and a fair ch...”
• “I thank you, in common with all others, who have thought fit, by their votes, to indorse the Republican cause. I rejoice...”
• “There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law. In any case that arises, as for instance, the promulga...”
• “I suppose Abraham Lincoln knew that was what would happen. He was very wise in the ways of men. He knew how people think...”
• “If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it...”
• “What has been said of Louisiana will apply generally to other States. And yet so great peculiarities pertain to each sta...”
• “What will be the result to the institution of slavery, which will follow submission to the inauguration and administrati...”
• “Once he called upon General McClellan, and the President went over to the General's house - a process which I assure you...”
• “That portion of the earth's surface which is owned and inhabited by the people of the United States is well adapted to b...”
• “As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the mo...”
• “You and I are different races. We have between us a broader difference than exists between almost any other races. Wheth...”
• “I am taken captive by so striking an utterance as this. I see in it the effect of sharp trial when rightly borne to rais...”
• “The Democracy are given to 'bushwhacking'. After having their errors and mis-statements continually thrust in their face...”
• “Freedom has given us the control of 200,000 able bodied men, born and raised on southern soil. It will give us more yet....”
• “On the other hand, the free states carry on their government on the principle of the equality of men. We think slavery i...”
• “The democrats had just been whipped in Ohio and Pennsylvania, and seized upon the unfortunate Harper's Ferry affair to i...”
• “We want those who think slavery wrong to quit voting with those who think it right. They don't treat it as they do other...”
• “The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. T...”
• “If those democrats really think slavery wrong they will be much pleased when earnest men in the slave states take up a p...”
• “I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can b...”
• “At the end of the Civil War, asking that a military band play "Dixie" (10 April 1865) as quoted in Dan Emmett and the Ri...”
• “What I now principally feel is that the death of Lincoln, like that of Socrates, is a worthy end to a noble life, and pu...”
• “The will of God prevails-In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and...”
• “Abraham Lincoln, the country's first Republican president, led the Union to victory in the Civil War and put slavery on ...”
• “[W]orking men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous, and as you added t...”
• “As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money...”
• “In reference to you, colored people, let me say God has made you free. Although you have been deprived of your God-given...”
• “Attributed in The Life of Abraham Lincoln (1866) by Josiah G. Holland, p. 23; also in The Real Life of Abraham Lincoln (...”
• “While the opinion of the court, by Chief-Justice Taney, in the Dred Scott case and the separate opinions of all the conc...”
• “It is exceedingly desirable that all parts of this great Confederacy shall be at peace, and in harmony, one with another...”
• “I propose now closing up by requesting you play a certain piece of music or a tune. I thought "Dixie" one of the best tu...”
• “As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the mo...”
• “It seldom helps to wonder how a statesman of one generation would surmount the crisis of another. A statesman deals with...”
• “I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must ...”
• “The south was not far behind the north in recognizing Abraham Lincoln as the natural leader of the rising political sent...”
• “Also quoted by Ida Tarbell, The Life of Abraham Lincoln: Drawn from Original Sources and Containing Many Speeches, Lette...”
• “Again: If one State may secede, so may another; and when all shall have seceded none is left to pay the debts. Is this q...”
• “But this is past; and nought remains, That raised thee o'er the brute. Thy piercing shrieks, and soothing strains, Are l...”
• “You say you will not fight to free negroes. Some of them seem willing to fight for you; but, no matter. Fight you, then,...”
• “My dear Sir: Herewith is a little sketch, as you requested. There is not much of it, for the reason, I suppose, that the...”
• “We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union, founder of the Republican Party. But in the middle of...”
• “Stern, indomitable 'Old Abe'. There was no compromising or evasion with him to catch votes and secure another term of Pr...”
• “A nation which endures factious domestic division is exposed to disrespect abroad, and one party, if not both, is sure s...”
• “I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere w...”
• “And now let any Union man who complains of the measure, test himself by writing down in one line that he is for subduing...”