Abraham Lincoln Quotes about Desire

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It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they shall be constitutionally preserved.

It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they shall be constitutionally preserved.

Abraham Lincoln

Desire, Liberty, Unions

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

What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out exactly.

Abraham Lincoln

People, Democracy, Desire

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

Abraham Lincoln

Famous Inspirational, Desire, World

Gene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.

Abraham Lincoln

Thinking, Desire, United States

Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.723, Jazzybee Verlag

If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others

Abraham Lincoln

Desire, Firsts, Slave

Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.343, Fordham Univ Press

I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.

Abraham Lincoln

Men, Desire, Slavery

Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.316, Fordham Univ Press

You already know I desire that neither Father or Mother shall be in want of any comfort either in health or sickness while they live.

Abraham Lincoln

Mother, Father, Desire

Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.130, Library of America

I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general than at present.

Abraham Lincoln

Mean, Sobriety, Desire

Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.10, Fordham Univ Press

And whereas this House desires to obtain a full knowledge of all the facts which go to establish whether the particular spot of soil which the blood of our citizens was so shed was, or was not, our own soil.

Abraham Lincoln

Blood, House, Desire

Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.421, Wildside Press LLC