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

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.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you,

or a man into voting for you,

try it till you are satisfied.

In giving freedom to the slave,

we assure freedom to the free

honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve.

We shall nobly save,

or meanly lose,

the last best hope of earth.

I am naturally anti slavery.

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

I can not remember when I did not so think and feel.

Repeal the Missouri Compromise

repeal all compromises repeal the Declaration of Independence

repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature.

It will be the abundance of man's heart that

slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart,

his mouth will continue to speak.

A capacity, and taste,

for reading gives access to whatever

has already been discovered by others.

Important principles may,

and must,

be inflexible.

There is another old poet whose name

I do not now remember who said,

'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union,

and is not either to save or to destroy slavery.

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave,

I would do it;

and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone,

I would also do that.

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution.

That must be maintained,

for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of

his aren't very new at all.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens,

you can never regain their respect and esteem.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day,

if I did not laugh I should die.

I never had a policy;

I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Any people anywhere,

being inclined and having the power,

have the right to rise up,

and shake off the existing government,

and form a new one that suits them better.

This is a most valuable

a most sacred right a right,

which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

When the white man governs himself,

that is self government;

but when he governs himself and also governs another man,

that is more than self

government

that is despotism.

Gold is good in its place;

but loving,

brave,

patriotic men are better than gold.

If we could first know where we are,

and whither we are tending,

we could then better judge what to do,

and how to do it.

I don't know who my grandfather was;

I am much more concerned to know

what his grandson will be.

It is not my nature,

when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles

the oppression of tyranny to make

their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens;

but rather would I do all in my power to raise

the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.