But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what […]
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.
I’m a slow walker, but I never walk back.
It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God’s assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men’s faces.
I do not understand that because I do not want a Negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone.
If A can prove, however conclusively, that he may, of right enslave B – why may not B snatch the same argument, and prove equally, that he may enslave A. You say A is white and B is black. It is color, then; the lighter, having the right to enslave the darker? Take care. By […]
As to the policy I ‘seem to be pursuing’ as You say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be the ‘Union as it […]
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free, – honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve
I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free
