Showing posts with label Famous Abraham Lincoln Quote. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Famous Abraham Lincoln Quote. Show all posts

Saturday, June 30, 2012

Famous Abraham Lincoln Quotes On Civil War, Slavery



 
" A house divided against itself cannot stand. " 


- Abraham Lincoln



" As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.  "

- Abraham Lincoln



" I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. "

- Abraham Lincoln


" I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him. "

- Abraham Lincoln




" I have always hated slavery,I think as much as any Abolitionist.  "


- Abraham Lincoln Slavery Quote
( July 10, 1858 Speech at Chicago )



" It is easy to see that, under the sharp discipline of civil war, the nation is beginning a new life.  "


- Abraham Lincoln On Civil War
( December 8, 1863 Message to Congress )



" Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure."


- Abraham Lincoln On Civil War
( November 19, 1863 Gettysburg Address )
 

" It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.  "


- Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address Quote



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