I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise. Abraham Lincoln Read Quote
I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model. Abraham Lincoln Read Quote
Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us. Abraham Lincoln Read Quote
Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn’t get there. Abraham Lincoln Read Quote
My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families – second families, perhaps I should say. Abraham Lincoln Read Quote
Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected. Abraham Lincoln Read Quote
Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them. Abraham Lincoln Read Quote
Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation. Abraham Lincoln Read Quote
If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat. Abraham Lincoln Read Quote
In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home. Abraham Lincoln Read Quote
