I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.
Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.
I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is but it does not admit of holidays.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act ane...
My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter usfrom the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely a...
The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.
No man was to be eulogized for what he did; or censured for what he did or did not do. All of us are the children of conditions, of circumstances, of environment, of education, of acquired habits and...
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
Important principles may and must be flexible.
True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and under a just God cannot long retain it.
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it...
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