"The assertion that 'all men are created..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.”

“War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.”

“I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.”

“Other human beings have a right to peace and happiness that is equal to our own; therefore we have a responsibility to help those in need.”

“A child's course in life should be determined not by the zip code she's born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams.”

“Most governments have been based, practically, on the denial of equal rights of menours began, by affirming those rights. They said, some men are too ignorant, and vicious, to share in government. Possibly so, said we; and, by your system, you would always keep them ignorant, and vicious. We proposed to give all a chance; and we expected the weak to grow stronger, the ignorant wiser; and all better, and happier together.”

“There was never a promise that race relations in America would be entirely resolved during my presidency or anybody's presidency. I mean, this has been a running thread - and - and fault line in American life and American politics since its founding.”

“The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.”

“There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.”