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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.

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

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

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 ...”

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

We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Struggle, Men
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.505, Wildside Press LLC

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Abraham Lincoln
Walkers, Moderates

When I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he's fighting a swarm of bees.

Abraham Lincoln
Fighting, Men, Bees

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Abraham Lincoln
Decision, Political, Mold

The President responded very impressively, saying that he was deeply sensible of his need of Divine assistance. He had sometime thought that perhaps he might be an instrument in God's hands of accomplishing a great work and he certainly was not unwilling to be. Perhaps, however, God's way of accomplishing the end which the memorialists have in view may be different from theirs.

Abraham Lincoln
Religious, Views, Hands
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.279, Wildside Press LLC

And while it has not pleased the Almighty to bless us with a return of peace, we can but press on, guided by the best light He gives, trusting that in His own good time, and wise way, all will yet be well.

Abraham Lincoln
Wise, Religious, Light
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.518, Wildside Press LLC

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.

Abraham Lincoln
Happiness, Marriage, Failure
Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.165, Jazzybee Verlag

Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil. No community where every member possesses the art can ever be the victim of oppression in any of its forms.

Abraham Lincoln
Art, Long, Community
Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.328, Library of America

Your organization will take on the personality of its top leaders

Abraham Lincoln
Organization, Personality, Leader

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

Abraham Lincoln
Motivational, Spring, Self
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.409, Wildside Press LLC

The Presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses; and [Zachary] Taylor like others, found thorns within it. No human being can fill that station and escape censure.

Abraham Lincoln
Bed Of Roses, Thorns, Politician
Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.38, Courier Corporation

Received as I am by the members of a legislature the majority of whom do not agree with me in political sentiments, I trust that I may have their assistance in piloting the ship of state through this voyage, surrounded by perils as it is; for if it should suffer wreck now, there will be no pilot ever needed for another voyage.

Abraham Lincoln
Political, Suffering, Majority
Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.838, Jazzybee Verlag

I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this question (slavery). They have constantly brought forward small cures for great sores-plasters too small to cover the wound. That is one reason that all settlements have proved so temporary-so evanescent.

Abraham Lincoln
Men, Thinking, Slavery
Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.134, Library of America

I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states, due to the Union of the states, and perhaps to liberty itself (paradox though it may seem) to let the slavery of the other states alone; while, on the other hand, I hold it to be equally clear, that we should never knowingly lend ourselves directly or indirectly, to prevent that slavery from dying a natural death--to find new places for it to live in, when it can no longer exist in the old.

Abraham Lincoln
Hands, Dying, Liberty
"Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 1" by Abraham Lincoln, New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1953.