I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.
Abraham LincolnI hear you have abolitionists here. We have a few in Illinois, but we shot one the other day.
Abraham LincolnOthers have been made fools of by the girls; but, this can never be with truth said of me. I most emphatically, in this instance,made a fool of myself.
Abraham LincolnThe greatest lessons I have every learned were at my mother's knees... All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
Abraham Lincoln