“Freedom is the natural condition of the human race, in which the Almighty intended men to live. Those who fight the purpose of the Almighty will not succeed. They always have been, they always will be beaten.”Abraham Lincoln
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”Abraham Lincoln
“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”Abraham Lincoln
“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”Abraham Lincoln
“Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?”Abraham Lincoln
“Government, possessing the power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and credit from circulation by taxation and otherwise, need not and should not borrow capital at interest as a means of financing government work and public enterprises.”Abraham Lincoln
“The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat; for this the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.”Abraham Lincoln
“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer.”Abraham Lincoln
“Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.”Abraham Lincoln
“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.”Abraham Lincoln
“If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.”Abraham Lincoln
“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
“Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert? I think that in such a case to silence the agitator and save the boy is not only constitutional but, withal, a great mercy.”Abraham Lincoln
“The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.”Abraham Lincoln
“In order to win a man to your cause, you must first reach his heart, the great high road to his reason.”Abraham Lincoln
“No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.”Abraham Lincoln