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Abraham Lincoln — Portrait after a picture by Alexander Gardner (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

The 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.

Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?
Fourth of July Address to Congress (1861)
- Government
- Liberty
We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.
Lecture on Liberty: An Address in Baltimore, Maryland (18 April 1864)
- Liberty
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, every where. Destroy this spirit, and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
Speech at Edwardsville, Illinois (11 September 1858)
- Liberty
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
The Gettysburg Address (1863)
- America
- Liberty

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