Quotes By Abraham Lincoln

I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms, (by no means excluding females.)

Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

I say 'try'; if we never try, we shall never succeed.

Every man, black, white or yellow... that bread should be allowed to go to that mouth without controversy.

Let him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently to build one for himself

Half‑finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

I believe the Declaration that 'all men are created equal' is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

Property is the fruit of labor... Labor is superior to capital and deserves much the higher consideration.

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty ... We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

I wish all men to be free.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration... can very seriously injure the government

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies... the mystic chords of memory... will swell the chorus of the Union... touched by the better angels of our nature.

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union ... If I could save the Union without freeing any slave... if I could save it by freeing all the slaves... I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think ... to this day, I have done no official act in mere deference to my abstract judgment and feeling on slavery.

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.