Abraham Lincoln Quotes And Sayings

Allow The President To Invade A Neighboring Nation Whenever He Shall Deem It Necessary To Repel An Invasion,and You Allow Him To Do So Whenever He May Choose To Say He Deems It Necessary For Such Purpose - And You Allow Him To Make War At Pleasure.

The Way For A Young Man To Rise Is To Improve Himself In Every Way He Can, Never Suspecting That Anybody Wishes To Hinder Him.

The People Will Save Their Government, If The Government Itself Will Allow Them.

Labor Is Prior To, And Independent Of, Capital. Capital Is Only The Fruit Of Labor, And Could Never Have Existed If Labor Had Not First Existed. Labor Is The Superior Of Capital, And Deserves Much The Higher Consideration.

I Hope To Stand Firm Enough To Not Go Backward, And Yet Not Go Forward Fast Enough To Wreck The Country's Cause.

We Here Highly Resolve That These Dead Shall Not Have Died In Vain - That This Nation, Under God, Shall Have A New Birth Of Freedom - And That Government Of The People, By The People, For The People, Shall Not Perish From The Earth.

At What Point Then Is The Approach Of Danger To Be Expected? I Answer, If It Ever Reach Us, It Must Spring Up Amongst Us. It Cannot Come From Abroad. If Destruction Be Our Lot, We Must Ourselves Be Its Author And Finisher. As A Nation Of Freemen, We Must Live Through All Time, Or Die By Suicide.

My Father... Removed From Kentucky To... Indiana, In My Eighth Year... It Was A Wild Region, With Many Bears And Other Wild Animals Still In The Woods. There I Grew Up... Of Course When I Came Of Age, I Did Not Know Much. Still Somehow, I Could Read, Write, And Cipher... But That Was All.

All That I Am, Or Hope To Be, I Owe To My Angel Mother.

All That I Am, Or Hope To Be, I Owe To My Angel Mother.

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.

It Is With Your Aid, As The People, That I Think We Shall Be Able To Preserve - Not The Country, For The Country Will Preserve Itself, But The Institutions Of The Country - Those Institutions Which Have Made Us Free, Intelligent And Happy - The Most Free, The Most Intelligent, And The Happiest People On The Globe.

Standing As I Do, With My Hand Upon This Staff, And Under The Folds Of The American Flag, I Ask You To Stand By Me So Long As I Stand By It.

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.

I Am Rather Inclined To Silence.

It Would Astonish If Not Amuse The Older Citizens To Learn That I (A Strange, Friendless, Uneducated, Penniless Boy, Working At Ten Dollars Per Month) Have Been Put Down As The Candidate Of Pride, Wealth, And Aristocratic Family Distinction.

Our Declaration Of Independence Was Held Sacred By All And Thought To Include All; But Now, To Aid In Making The Bondage Of The Negro Universal And Eternal, It Is Assailed, Sneered At, Construed, Hawked At, And Torn, Till, If Its Framers Could Rise From Their Graves, They Could Not At All Recognize It.

There Is No Grievance That Is A Fit Object Of Redress By Mob Law.

There Is No Grievance That Is A Fit Object Of Redress By Mob Law.