1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?

Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.

'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.

I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to be true views.

Nevertheless, amid the greatest difficulties of my Administration, when I could not see any other resort, I would place my whole reliance on God, knowing that all would go well, and that He would decide for the right.

I shall always think of myself first and foremost... as a hunter.

And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us.