Quotes about Abraham Lincoln
I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.
- Abraham Lincoln
If you don't want to use the army, I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully,
- Abraham Lincoln
I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.
- Abraham Lincoln
My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.
- Abraham Lincoln
You can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government; while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend" it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision.
- Abraham Lincoln
I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.
- Abraham Lincoln
May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.
- Abraham Lincoln
And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in GOD, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts. Abraham Lincoln, in an address to congress July 4th, 1861
- Abraham Lincoln
May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity shall in no wise suffer at my hands.
- Abraham Lincoln
being used now, in order to force slavery on to Kansas; for it cannot be done in any other way. [Sensation.] The
- Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln called laughter "the joyous, beautiful, universal evergreen of life."
- Abraham Lincoln