Category: Quote of the Day

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

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

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

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

There are two ways of establishing a proposition. One is by trying to demonstrate it upon reason; and the other is to show that great men in former times have thought so and so, and thus to pass it by the weight of pure authority.”– Speech at Columbus, Ohio, September 16, 1859

The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon that point.”– Speech before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, September 30, 1859

The United States don’t need the services of boys who disobey their parents.”– Letter to Gideon Welles, undated

The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776.”– First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861

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

The struggle of today, is not altogether for today –it is for a vast future also.”– Annual Message to Congress, December 3, 1861