Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865 Quotes

“Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world...enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space.”
― Abraham Lincoln, Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865

“I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.”
― Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters

“I have been too familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined.”
― Abraham Lincoln, Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865

“I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.”
― Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters

“let every man remember that to violate the law is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the charter of his own and his children's liberty.”
― Abraham Lincoln, Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865

“I will not say that we may not sooner or later be compelled to meet force by force; but the time has not yet come, and if we are true to ourselves, may never come. Do not mistake that the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Therefore let the legions of slavery use bullets; but let us wait patiently till November, and fire ballots at them in return; and by that peaceful policy, I believe we shall ultimately win.”
― Abraham Lincoln, Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865

“being used now, in order to force slavery on to Kansas; for it cannot be done in any other way. [Sensation.] The”
― Abraham Lincoln, Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865

“Advancement—improvement in condition—is the order of things in a society of equals.”
― Abraham Lincoln, Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865