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.
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Letter to Isham Reavis (5 November 1855)
- 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
When I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Statement to an Indiana Regiment passing through Washington (17 March 1865)
