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

I have talked with great men,

and I do not see how they differ from others.

I never went to school more than six months in my life,

but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections,

I remember how,

when a mere child,

I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me

in a way I could not understand.

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.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine,

should any ever do so,

it is my intention to do all in my power to

make her happy and contented;

and there is nothing I can imagine that would

make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that

which devolved upon Washington.

Unless the great God, who assisted him,

shall be with me and aid me, I must fail;

but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm

that directed and protected him shall guide and support me,

I shall not fail I shall succeed.

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 the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State

Constitution tolerating polygamy,

will the Democracy admit them into the Union?

I am humble Abraham Lincoln.

I have been solicited by my friends to

become a candidate for the Legislature.

My politics are short and sweet,

like the old woman's dance.

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.

I am naturally anti slavery.

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

I can not remember when I did not so think and feel.

Repeal the Missouri Compromise

repeal all compromises repeal the Declaration of Independence

repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature.

It will be the abundance of man's heart that

slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart,

his mouth will continue to speak.

A capacity, and taste,

for reading gives access to whatever

has already been discovered by others.

Important principles may,

and must,

be inflexible.

There is another old poet whose name

I do not now remember who said,

'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union,

and is not either to save or to destroy slavery.

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave,

I would do it;

and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone,

I would also do that.

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution.

That must be maintained,

for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of

his aren't very new at all.