Although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it by being a slave himself.
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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.
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.
If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them, when they are invaded.
The people – the people are the rightful masters of both congresses and courts – not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert it.
Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?… Truth and… justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.
The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.
