10000+ Motivational and Inspiring Quotes About Life, Love & Success

I was losing interest in politics,

when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again.

What I have done since then is pretty well known.

Among the friends of Union,

there is great diversity of sentiment

and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.

It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored,

and others have, without labor,

enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

I understand a ship to be made for the carrying

and preservation of the cargo,

and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo,

it should never be abandoned.

This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless

it fails and the possibility of its preservation shall cease to exist,

without throwing passengers and cargo overboard.

It was that which gave promise that in due time

the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men,

and that all should have an equal chance.

This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house,

that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

The people themselves,

and not their servants,

can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs,

there is no need of bloodshed and war.

There is no necessity for it.

I am not in favor of such a course,

and I may say in advance,

there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government.

The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

The point the power to hurt

of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana

is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl;

we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg

than by smashing it.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion

can be permanently maintained.

He who molds the public sentiment...

makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws,

but to break up both and make new ones.

I have talked with great men,

and I do not see how they differ from others.

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it

not for themselves and, under a just God,

cannot long retain it.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar,

but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that

which devolved upon Washington.

Unless the great God, who assisted him,

shall be with me and aid me, I must fail;

but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm

that directed and protected him shall guide and support me,

I shall not fail I shall succeed.

The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children,

and then sell them into interminable bondage,

with no other motive than that

which is furnished by dollars and cents,

is so much worse than the most depraved murderer

that he can never receive pardon at my hand.

If the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State

Constitution tolerating polygamy,

will the Democracy admit them into the Union?