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Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.— filed under Charity
Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.— filed under Duty
Battle Hymn of the Republic. Know ye why the Cypress tree as freedom's tree is known? Know ye why the Lily fair as freedom's flower is shown? Hundred arms the Cypress has, yet never plunder seeks ; With ten well-developed tongues, the Lily never speaks! OMAR KHAYYAM. Trans. by Frederich Bodenstedt. I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.— filed under Freedom
A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free.— filed under Prince De Ligne
1858. See W. O. Stoddard's Life of Lincoln. That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government ( of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.— filed under Prince De Ligne
I take the official oath to-day with no mental reservations and with no purpose to construe the Constitution by any hypercritical rules.— filed under November
Address. March 4, 1861. You can have no oath registered in heaven destroy the Government; while I shall have to destroy the Government; while Ishall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend" it.— filed under November
Western Islands. Inch Kenneth. The mystic chords 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 better angels of our nature.— filed under Patriotism
Address. March 4, 1861. This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.— filed under Patriotism
Independence. Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.— filed under Rights
Pope's trans. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.— filed under Slavery
1858. In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free, -honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.— filed under Slavery