Abraham Lincoln Quotes - Page 36

• You think slavery is right and ought to be extended; while we think it is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Thinking, Differences, Civil War

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.160, Wildside Press LLC

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• I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of extending slavery under the national auspices, - I am inflexible. I am for no compromise which assists or permits the extension of the institution on soil owned by the nation.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Slavery, Soil, Compromise

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.197, Library of America

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• That I am not a member of any Christian Church, is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures; and I have never spoken with intentional disrepect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Christian, Religious, Presidential

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.382, Wildside Press LLC

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• To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Love, Peace, Giving

  "Fragment of a Speech" ca. 18 May 1858.

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• Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?], any man might instantly use what another had invented; so that the inventor had no special advantage from his own invention. The patent system changed this; secured to the inventor, for a limited time, the exclusive use of his invention; and thereby added the fuel of interest to the fire of genius, in the discovery and production of new and useful things.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Science, Men

  Second lecture on discoveries and inventions, delivered to the Phi Alpha Society of Illinois College at Jacksonville, Illinois, (February 11, 1859); "The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. 3" edited by Roy P. Basler, (p. 357), 1953.

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• In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in the making the bondage of the negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, and sneered at, and construed, and hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Independence, Slavery, Sacred

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.396, Library of America

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• I can not but hate the prospect of slavery's expansion. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world-enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites-causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Hate, Real, War

  Speech, Peoria, Ill., 16 Oct. 1854

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• And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Military, War, Government

  Abraham Lincoln, Karl Marx (2011). “An Unfinished Revolution: Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln”, p.116, Verso Books

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• Being President is like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail... A man in the crowd asked how he liked it, and his reply was that if it wasn't for the honor of the thing, he would much rather walk.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Honor, President

  Martin D. Tullai, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “Speaking of Abraham Lincoln”

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• The land, the earth God gave to man for his home ... should never be the possession of any man, corporation, (or) society ... any more than the air or water.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Home, Men, Air

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• I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Wish, Slavery

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.41, Wildside Press LLC

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• If the union of these States, and the liberties of this people, shall be lost, it is but little to any one man of fifty-two yearsof age, but a great deal to the thirty millions of people who inhabit these United States, and to their posterity in all coming time.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Two, People

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.194, Wildside Press LLC

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• Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Law, Slavery, Constitution

  Cooper Union Address, delivered 27 February 1860, New York, NY

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• I am for the people of the whole nation doing just as they please in all matters which concern the whole nation; for that of each part doing just as they choose in all matters which concern no other part; and for each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.

  Abraham Lincoln

  People, Matter, Individual

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.416, Library of America

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• I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Army, Rivers, Details

  Abraham Lincoln, Francis Bicknell Carpenter (1908). “The works of Abraham Lincoln ...”

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• One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Believe, Civil War

  Abraham Lincoln, Terence Ball (2013). “Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches”, p.121, Cambridge University Press

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• A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Law, People

  Abraham Lincoln (1991). “Great Speeches”, p.87, Courier Corporation

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• All creation is a mine, and every man a miner. The whole earth, and all within it, upon it, and round about it, including himself ... are the infinitely various "leads" from which, man, from the first, was to dig out his destiny.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Destiny, Men, Discovery

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.437, Wildside Press LLC

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• Government should stand behind its currency and credit and the bank deposits of the nation. No individual should suffer a loss of money through depreciation or inflated currency of Bank bankruptcy.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Loss, Government, Suffering

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• We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God, I hope it never will until that time.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Perseverance, Religious, War

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.395, Wildside Press LLC

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• The President to-night has a dream: - He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they began to comment on his appearance. One of them said: - "He is a very common-looking man". The President replied: - "The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them".

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dream, Party, Night

  Attributed in "Letters of John Hay and Extracts from Diary, vol. 1" by John Hay, (pp. 142-143), 1908.

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• By the 'mud-sill' theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to that theory, a blind horse upon a tread-mill, is a perfect illustration of what a laborer should be -- all the better for being blind, that he could not tread out of place, or kick understandingly. According to that theory, the education of laborers, is not only useless, but pernicious, and dangerous. In fact, it is, in some sort, deemed a misfortune that laborers should have heads at all.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Horse, Illustration, Should Have

  Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.162, Fordham Univ Press

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• And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, Men, White

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.551, Modern Library

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• When met with a problem I always ask myself what is the right thing to do and then I do it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Problem, Mets, Things To Do

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• I am a moderate walker, however I never stroll back.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Walkers, Moderates

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