1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you, and are as completely your masters, as you are the master of your own negroes.

I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.

So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

Cortissoz was art critic of the New York Herald Tribune.

Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated.

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling.

As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.

This nation under God