Quotes by Lincoln, Abraham

To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympa >>

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better. >>

No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. >>

Quotations about Slavery

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong >>

Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping fr >>

Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by th >>

Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature -- opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

Lincoln, Abraham