Abraham Lincoln Quotes about Liberty
Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms.
Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.128, Fordham Univ Press
First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861
Abraham Lincoln (1907). “The Lincoln Year Book: Containing Immortal Words of Abraham Lincoln Spoken and Written on Various Occasions, Preceded by Appropriate Scripture Texts and Followed by Choice Poetic Selections for Each Day in the Year, with Special Reference to Anniversary Dates”
Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.72, Penguin
Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.25, Fordham Univ Press
Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.297, Library of America
I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.
Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.416, Library of America
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.194, Wildside Press LLC
We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.
Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Md., 18 Apr. 1864
The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty
Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Md., 18 Apr. 1864
Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher (1977). “Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings”, p.120, Stanford University Press
Address on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, delivered 16 October 1854, Peoria, Illinois
What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?
Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.128, Fordham Univ Press
The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.
Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.136, Fordham Univ Press
"Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 1" by Abraham Lincoln, New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1953.
What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?
Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Paul M. Angle (1958). “The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858”, p.391, University of Chicago Press