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Abraham Lincoln Quotations
Welcome to Abraham Lincoln Quotations, the webpage that brings you a host of phrases, quotes, sayings, messages and wise comments from one of the United States' most popular presidents. These are all free for you to use for non commercial purpose
** "Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others."-- January 27, 1838 - Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois ** "You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it."-- August 24, 1855 - Letter to Joshua Speed ** "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."-- August 24, 1855 - Letter to Joshua Speed **
"I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free."-- June 16, 1858 - House Divided Speech in Springfield, Illinois ** "I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal." -- July 10, 1858 - Speech at Chicago, Illinois ** "Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it."-- April 6, 1859 Abraham Lincoln Quotations "I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free."-- August 22, 1862 - Letter to Horace Greeley "In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -- December 1, 1862 - Lincoln's Second Annual Message to Congress
"Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time."-- August 26, 1863 - Letter to James Conkling
"And then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonnet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation..."-- August 26, 1863 - Letter to James Conkling
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."-- November 19, 1863 - Lincoln's Gettysburg Address "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."-- April 4, 1864 - Letter to Albert Hodges Abraham Lincoln Quotations "Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."-- March 17, 1865 - Speech to One Hundred Fortieth Indiana Regiment
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