Abraham Lincoln

It may be affirmed, without extravagance, that the free institutions we enjoy, have developed the powers, and improved the condition, of our whole people, beyond any example in the world.

Abraham Lincoln

It must now atone in blood for its complicity in wickedness.

Abraham Lincoln

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

Abraham Lincoln

It’s not me who can’t keep a secret. It’s the people I tell that can’t.

Abraham Lincoln

It’s time for me to go. But I would rather stay.

Abraham Lincoln

John Brown’s effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection. It was an attempt by white men to get up a revolt among slaves, in which the slaves refused to participate.

Abraham Lincoln

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is the true standard of value.

Abraham Lincoln

Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.

Abraham Lincoln

Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others.

Abraham Lincoln