Abraham Lincoln Quotes about Office

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I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

Abraham Lincoln

War, Office, Favors

Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas, Charleston, Ill., 18 Sept. 1858

I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

Abraham Lincoln

Men, Thinking, Office

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

This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.

Abraham Lincoln

Struggle, Office, Way To Live

Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.

Abraham Lincoln

Humor, Office, Littles

I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion. Leaving the higher matter of eternal consequences, between him and his Maker, I still do not think any man has the right thus to insult the feelings, and injure the morals, of the community in which he may live.

Abraham Lincoln

Men, Thinking, Office

Abraham Lincoln (1999). “Lincoln on Lincoln”, p.71, University Press of Kentucky

Fellow countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first...The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.

Abraham Lincoln

Office, Presidential, Progress

Second Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1865