Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors. Abraham Lincoln Read Quote
The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them. Abraham Lincoln Read Quote
I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause. Abraham Lincoln Read Quote
The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature. Abraham Lincoln Read Quote
When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government – that is despotism. Abraham Lincoln Read Quote
To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary. Abraham Lincoln Read Quote
I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up. Abraham Lincoln Read Quote
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. Abraham Lincoln Read Quote
