The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Abraham LincolnThe worst thing you can do for anyone you care about is anything that they can do on their own.
Abraham LincolnYou think slavery is right and ought to be extended; while we think it is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us.
Abraham LincolnWise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity should look up again at the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began.
Abraham Lincoln