Abraham Lincoln

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

Abraham Lincoln

This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.

Abraham Lincoln

This is essentially a People’s contest. On the side of the Union, it is a struggle for maintaining in the world, that form, and substance of government, whose leading object is, to elevate the condition of men — to lift artificial weights from all shoulders — to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all — to afford all, an unfettered start, and a fair chance, in the race of life.

Abraham Lincoln

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

Abraham Lincoln

Thoughtful men must feel that the fate of civilization upon this continent is involved in the issue of our contest.

Abraham Lincoln

Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.

Abraham Lincoln

To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

Abraham Lincoln

To his care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell.

Abraham Lincoln

To lead, you must touch men’s hearts.

Abraham Lincoln

To read in the Bible, as the word of God himself, that ‘In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread,’ and to preach therefrom that, ‘In the sweat of other mans faces shalt thou eat bread,’ to my mind can scarcely be reconciled with honest sincerity.

Abraham Lincoln