I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known. Abraham Lincoln Read Quote
I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can’t stop to put out the fire that is burning the other. Abraham Lincoln Read Quote
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in. Abraham Lincoln Read Quote
Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this. Abraham Lincoln Read Quote
I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began. Abraham Lincoln Read Quote
I understand a ship to be made for the carrying and preservation of the cargo, and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo, it should never be abandoned. This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless it fails and the possibility of its preservation shall cease to exist, without throwing passengers and cargo overboard. Abraham Lincoln Read Quote
We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us. Abraham Lincoln Read Quote
A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. Abraham Lincoln Read Quote
We can succeed only by concert. It is not, ‘Can any of us imagine better,’ but, ‘Can we all do better?’ Abraham Lincoln Read Quote
It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones. Abraham Lincoln Read Quote
