Quotes from Abraham Lincoln
The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
- Abraham Lincoln
If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.
- Abraham Lincoln
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.
- Abraham Lincoln
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
- Abraham Lincoln
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.
- Abraham Lincoln
the better angels of our nature
- Abraham Lincoln
As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.
- Abraham Lincoln
With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.
- Abraham Lincoln
My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.
- Abraham Lincoln
Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
- Abraham Lincoln