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Abraham Lincoln Quotes about Peace

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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Abraham Lincoln
Inspirational, Basketball, Peace

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

Abraham Lincoln
Strength, Hope, Peace
Speech in House of Representatives, 12 Jan. 1848

I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference.

Abraham Lincoln
Positive, Peace, Mean

There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.

Abraham Lincoln
Peace, Military, War

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

Abraham Lincoln
Peace, Humor, Vaccines

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion. We cannot escape history. We will be remembered in spite of ourselves. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour, to the last generation. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, our last best hope of Earth.

Abraham Lincoln
Peace, War, Past

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Abraham Lincoln
Friendship, Forgiveness, Peace
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

. . . peace is a thing which a person must be willing to fight for . . .

Abraham Lincoln
Peace, Fighting, Politics

We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.

Abraham Lincoln
Thanksgiving, Peace, Years
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.156, Wildside Press LLC

Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union fora peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration.

Abraham Lincoln
Peace, Giving Up, Men
Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher (1977). “Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings”, p.263, Stanford University Press

Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.

Abraham Lincoln
Peace, Military, War
Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “Abraham Lincoln's Wit & Wisdom”, p.64, Courier Corporation

The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.

Abraham Lincoln
Sympathy, Peace, People
Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.868, Modern Library

Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.

Abraham Lincoln
Peace, War, Ubuntu
Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

Abraham Lincoln
Peace, War, Government
Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.301, Jazzybee Verlag

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

Abraham Lincoln
Love, Peace, Voting
Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher (1977). “Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings”, p.169, Stanford University Press

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.

Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object

Abraham Lincoln
Peace, Kings, War
Abraham Lincoln (2011). “Lincoln on War”, p.36, Algonquin Books

And I do further recommend to my fellow-citizens aforesaid, that on that occasion they do reverently humble themselves in the dust, and from thence offer up penitent and fervent prayers and supplications to the great Disposer of events for a return of the inestimable blessings of peace, union, and harmony throughout the land which it has pleased him to assign as a dwelling-place for ourselves and for our posterity throughout all generations.

Abraham Lincoln
Peace, Prayer, Humble
Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1403, Jazzybee Verlag

Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.

Abraham Lincoln
Peace, Government, Maintenance
Abraham Lincoln, Carl Schurz, Joseph Hodges Choate, Noah Brooks, Stephen Arnold Douglas (1862). “The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: 1858-1862”, p.289