1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other right.

He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them; that he is penetrating, so far as lies in his power, the human soul, and eradicating the light of reason and the love of liberty, when he is in every possible way preparing the public mind, by his vast influence, for making the institution of slavery perpetual and national.

I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia.

The will of God prevails.

The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hand.

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it

Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.

There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one. There is involved in this struggle the question whether your children and my children shall enjoy the privileges we have enjoyed.

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.