When I left Springfield [to become President] I asked the people to pray for me. I was not a Christian. When I buried my son, the severest trial of my life, I was not a Christian. But when I went to Gettysburg and saw the graves of thousands of our soldiers, I then and there consecrated myself to Christ.
Abraham LincolnI cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.
Abraham LincolnI hold that while a man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.
Abraham LincolnI am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God's word because it finds me where I am.
Abraham Lincoln[I]f the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting, the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased, to be their own rulers, having, to that extent, practically resigned their Government, into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Abraham Lincoln