Abraham Lincoln Quotes

But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what […]

The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.

I’m a slow walker, but I never walk back.

In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free, – honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve

I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

Although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it by being a slave himself.

It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God’s assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men’s faces.

I do not understand that because I do not want a Negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone.

If A can prove, however conclusively, that he may, of right enslave B – why may not B snatch the same argument, and prove equally, that he may enslave A. You say A is white and B is black. It is color, then; the lighter, having the right to enslave the darker? Take care. By […]