I believe the declaration that โall men are created equalโ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.
Abraham LincolnStudy the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.
Abraham LincolnThe solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Abraham LincolnI do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion. Leaving the higher matter of eternal consequences, between him and his Maker, I still do not think any man has the right thus to insult the feelings, and injure the morals, of the community in which he may live.
Abraham Lincoln