Abraham Lincoln1809–1865The quotations of
Abraham Lincoln
President of the United States from 1861 to 1865
1809–1865
69 quotes, most often on Slavery, America and War & Peace. Part of the U.S. Presidents collection.
- Definition of Democracy; see Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 2 (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1953), p. 532
The Confederacy stands for slavery and the Union for freedom.
Private conversation (January 1862)- Letter to George Robertson (15 August 1855)
- Regarding the treatment of former Confederate soldiers. In Richmond, Virginia (April 4, 1865), as quoted in Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War (1885), by David Dixon Porter, p. 312
- Speech to Illinois legislature (January 1837)
- Letter to Joseph Gillespie (13 July 1849)
Military glory, — that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood.
Speech in the United States House of Representatives opposing the Mexican war (12 January 1848)Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
Letter to Major General Joseph Hooker (26 January 1863)Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.
- Speech at Peoria, Illinois (1854)
- Letter to Thurlow Weed (15 March 1865), reproduced in Lord Charnwood (1916), Abraham Lincoln: A Biography
- On popular sovereignty; rejoinder in the Sixth Lincoln-Douglas Debate (13 October 1858); reported in The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basler (1953), vol. 3, p. 279
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Speech in the House of Representatives (20 June 1848)
