I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man? Abraham Lincoln Independence
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. Abraham Lincoln Life
Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow. Abraham Lincoln Nature
I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance. Abraham Lincoln Politics
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 Freedom
I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. Abraham Lincoln Religion
Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech. Abraham Lincoln Business
It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them. Abraham Lincoln Nature
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. Abraham Lincoln Truth
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.' Abraham Lincoln Truth
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. Abraham Lincoln Education
Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality. Abraham Lincoln God
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. Abraham Lincoln Respect
That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular. Abraham Lincoln Religion