Quote

Relying, as I do, upon the Almighty Power, and encouraged as I am by these resolutions which you have just read, with the support which I receive from Christian men, I shall not hesitate to use all the means at my control to secure the termination of this rebellion, and will hope for success.

Abraham Lincoln

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
16Th U.S. President
Farmer
Lawyer
Military Officer
Politician
Postmaster
Statesperson
Hodgenville
Kentucky
Honest Abe
A. Lincoln
President Lincoln
Abe Lincoln
Lincoln
Uncle Abe
Power
Religious
Rebellion
Mean
Upon
Almighty
Men
Read
Resolution
Success
Receive
Termination
Hope
Secure
Resolutions
Christian
Control
Relying
Use
Shall
Hesitate
Means
Support
Encouraged

More quotes by Abraham Lincoln

Image
So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Don't be fooled. I kept all my workout clothes in that top hat.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out exactly.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
I cannot bring myself to believe that any human being lives who would do me any harm.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
The will of God prevails.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
There is a vague popular belief that lawyers are necessarily dishonest. I say vague, because when we consider to what extent confidence and honors are reposed in and conferred upon lawyers by the people, it appears improbable that their impression of dishonesty is very distinct and vivid. Yet the impression is common, almost universal.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species,might have shared with me in the elevation, I would rather stand on that eminence, than wear the richest crown that ever pressed a monarch's brow.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
This is a world of compensations and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
I am slow to learn and slow to forget that which I have learned. My mind is like a piece of steel, very hard to scratch any thing on it and almost impossible after you get it there to rub it out.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
We must settle this question now -- whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever they choose. If we fail, it will go far to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves.
Abraham Lincoln