If 600,000 people have to die in order for the nation to live, then 600,000 people will die.
Abraham LincolnI wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.
Abraham LincolnI have had so many evidences of [God's] direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will, that I cannot doubt that this power comes from above.
Abraham LincolnIf you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already. It is but a small matter whether you read with anyone or not. I did not read with anyone. Get the books, and read and study them till you understand them in their principal features; and that is the main thing. It is of no consequence to be in a large town while you are reading. I read at New Salem, which never had three hundred people living in it. The books, and your capacity for understanding them, are just the same in all places.
Abraham Lincoln