Abraham Lincoln
"The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded."
Abraham Lincoln
"Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this."
Abraham Lincoln
"It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones."
Abraham Lincoln
"It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits."
Abraham Lincoln
"We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'"
Abraham Lincoln
"If the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State Constitution tolerating polygamy, will the Democracy admit them into the Union?"
Abraham Lincoln
"No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained."
Abraham Lincoln
"In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong."
Abraham Lincoln
"I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion."
Abraham Lincoln
"The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions."
Abraham Lincoln
"The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application."
Abraham Lincoln
"Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected."
Abraham Lincoln
"I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise."
Abraham Lincoln
"Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us."
Abraham Lincoln
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