Lincoln Quotes

I think we have fairly entered upon a durable struggle whether this nation is ultimately to become all slave or all free, and though I fall early in the contest it is nothing if I shall have contributed in the least degree to the final rightful result.
- Abraham Lincoln

If anyone, upon his rare powers of speaking, shall claim an exemption from the drudgery of the law, his case is a failure in advance.
- Abraham Lincoln

If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
- Abraham Lincoln

If the Negro, is a man, then my ancient faith teaches me that "all men are created equal" and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.
- Abraham Lincoln

In all that the people can individually do as well for themselves, the government ought not to interfere.
- Abraham Lincoln

Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.
- Abraham Lincoln

It (secession) is an issue which can only be tried by war and decided by victory.
- Abraham Lincoln

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
- Abraham Lincoln

It is said in one of the admonitions of the Lord, "As your Father in Heaven is perfect, be ye also perfect." The Savior, I suppose did not expect that any human creature could be perfect as the Father in Heaven. He set that up as a standard, and he who did most toward reaching that standard attained the highest degree of moral perfection.
- Abraham Lincoln