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

I do not expect the Union to be dissolved

I do not expect the house to fall

but I do expect it will cease to be divided.

It will become all one thing,

or all the other.

If a man had more than one life,

I think a little hanging would not hurt this one;

but after he is once dead,

we cannot bring him back,

no matter how sorry we may be;

so the boy shall be pardoned.

Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing

off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you.

It is different with us.

Here it is every fellow for himself,

or he doesn't get there.

A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major general.

Being elected to Congress,

though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it,

has not pleased me as much as I expected.

You may think it was a very little thing,

and in these days it seems to me like a trifle,

but it was a most important incident in my life.

I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy,

had earned a dollar in less than a day;

that by honest work, I had earned a dollar.

I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

I can express all my views on the slavery question

by quotations from Henry Clay.

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.

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.

It was that which gave promise that in due time

the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men,

and that all should have an equal chance.

This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house,

that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

The people themselves,

and not their servants,

can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim

their fugitives I have constantly admitted.

The legal right of Congress to interfere with

their institution in the states,

I have constantly denied.

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws,

but to break up both and make new ones.

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it

not for themselves and, under a just God,

cannot long retain it.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar,

but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

The people know their rights,

and they are never slow to assert

and maintain them when they are invaded.

The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children,

and then sell them into interminable bondage,

with no other motive than that

which is furnished by dollars and cents,

is so much worse than the most depraved murderer

that he can never receive pardon at my hand.

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.