Category: Quote of the Day

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 12a

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

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

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

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government – that is despotism.”– Speech at Peoria, October 16, 1854

When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that a ‘drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.’”– Temperance Address, February 22, 1842

What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?”– Cooper Institute Address, February 27, 1860

We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.”– Last Public Address, April 11, 1865

We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed.”– Speech to the One Hundred Sixty-fourth Ohio Regiment, August 22, 1864

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