Category: Quote of the Day

There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one. There is involved in this struggle the question whether your children and my children shall enjoy the privileges we have enjoyed.”– Speech to the One Hundred Sixty-fourth Ohio Regiment, August 22, 1864

The true rule, in determining to embrace or reject anything, is not whether it have any evil in it, but whether it have more of evil than of good.”– Speech on Internal Improvements, June 20, 1848

There is much he can not do, and some he can.”– Letter to Joseph Gillespie, July 25, 1858

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.”– Address Before the Young Men’s Lyceum, Springfield, Illinois, January 27, 1838

This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.”– Letter to Henry Pierce, April 6, 1859

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.”– Letter to Henry Pierce et al, April 6, 1859

To give the victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only are necessary. Thanks to our good old Constitution, and organization under it, these alone are necessary.”– Notes for speeches, circa October 1, 1858

To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell.”– Farewell Address, February 11, 1861

To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.”– Temperance Address, February 22, 1842

True democracy makes no inquiry about the color of the skin, or place of nativity, or any other similar circumstance or condition.”– Speech at Cincinnati, May 6, 1842