"If all do not join now to..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought”

“I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "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."”

“May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.”

“God, the best maker of all marriages, Combine your hearts into one.”

“We believe that the spreading out and perpetuity of the institution of slavery impairs the general welfare. We believe - nay, we know, that that is the only thing that has ever threatened the perpetuity of the Union itself.”

“To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.”

“An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength.”

“We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions”

“We cannot have real independence unless the people banish the touch-me-not spirit from their hearts.”