Quote

If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.

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
Cannot
Give
Nothing
Impose
Giving
Creature
Every
Slavery
Creatures
Freedom
Upon

More quotes by Abraham Lincoln

Image
And you are entirely free from head-ache? That is good -- good -- considering it is the first spring you have been free from it since we were acquainted. I am afraid you will get so well, and fat, and young, as to be wanting to marry again.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Trusting in Him, who can go with me, and remain with you and be every where for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all but now, to aid in the making the bondage of the negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, and sneered at, and construed, and hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
But the proclamation, as law, either is valid, or is not valid. If it is not valid, it needs no retraction. If it is valid, it can not be retracted, any more than the dead can be brought to life.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
God bless the soldiers and seamen, with all their brave commanders.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever-it being impossible to destroy it, except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
The Lord spared the fitten and the rest he seen fitten to die.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Never let your correspondence fall behind.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Money possesses no value to the state other than that given to it by circulation.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.
Abraham Lincoln