Quotes about Abraham Lincoln
I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.
— Abraham Lincoln
Don't kneel to me, that is not right. You must kneel to God only, and thank Him for the liberty you will hereafter enjoy.
— Abraham Lincoln
I am busily engaged in study of the Bible.
— Abraham Lincoln
May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.
— Abraham Lincoln
I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.
— 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
Has it not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death?
— Abraham Lincoln
Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.
— Abraham Lincoln
Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free."
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God.
— Abraham Lincoln