"...I am exceedingly anxious that this Union,..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln
...I am exceedingly anxious that this Union, the Constitution, and the liberties of the people shall be perpetuated in accordance with the original idea for which that struggle was made, and I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this, his almost chosen people, for perpetuating the object of that great struggle.
More by Abraham Lincoln
“In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free. I insist that they found the institution of slavery existing here. They did not make it so, but they left it so because they knew of no way to get rid of it at that time.”
“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.”
“Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.”
More on Nation
“The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business man, or artist, or scientist.”
“No one built this country on their own. This nation is great because we built it together.”
“A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock.”
More on Liberty
“Its authors meant it to be... a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people back into the hateful paths of despotism. They knew the proneness of prosperity to breed tyrants, and they meant when such should re-appear in this fair land and commence their vocation they should find left for them at least one hard nut to crack.”
“Let me give you my vision: A man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the state as servant and not as master. These are the British inheritance. They are the essence of a free country, and on that freedom all of our other freedoms depend.”
“The problem for the King is just how strictThe lack of liberty, the squeeze of the lawAnd discipline should be in school and state.”