Category: Quote of the Day

Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”– Speech to One Hundred Fortieth Indiana Regiment, March 17, 1865

Work, work, work, is the main thing.”– Letter to John M. Brockman, September 25, 1860

We do not want to dissolve the Union; you shall not.”– Speech at Galena, August 1, 1856

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?”– First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan… Continue reading Quote of the Day 9m

With us every soldier is a man of character, and must be treated with more consideration than is customary in Europe.”– Letter to Count Gasparin, August 4, 1862

Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.”– Letter to James M. Cutts, Jr., October 26,… Continue reading Quote of the Day 7m

You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.”– Letter to Joseph Hooker, January 26, 1863

You cannot institute any equality between right and wrong.”– Galesburg Debate, October 7, 1858

You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.”– Letter to Joshua Speed, August 24, 1855