Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.
Abraham LincolnHypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
Abraham LincolnIt has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing.
Abraham LincolnThe political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right.
Abraham LincolnNear eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to the other declaration, that for SOME men to enslave OTHERS is a "sacred right of self-government." These principles can not stand together. They are as opposite as God and mammon; and whoever holds to the one, must despise the other.
Abraham Lincoln