There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end.
Abraham LincolnWhatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her
Abraham LincolnLet there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be done again.
Abraham LincolnIf I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
Abraham LincolnI have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.
Abraham LincolnI think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this question (slavery). They have constantly brought forward small cures for great sores-plasters too small to cover the wound. That is one reason that all settlements have proved so temporary-so evanescent.
Abraham Lincoln