Political Quotes

Let us strive to deserve, as far as mortals may, the continued favor of Almighty God.

I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others.

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.

Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish.