Abraham Lincoln quotes - Quotable Lincoln

No.	Quotation	Name	Subject
121	I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. First Debate with Stephen Douglas, at Ottawa, Illinois (A	Abraham Lincoln	Slavery
122	I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races. I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor qualifying them to hold office, nor to inter	Abraham Lincoln	Slavery
123	This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. Fi	Abraham Lincoln	Government
124	I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall	Abraham Lincoln	Helping others
125	Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continents a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any na	Abraham Lincoln	Liberty
126	With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. Consequently he who moulds public sentiment, goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions. He makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to be executed. F	Abraham Lincoln	Sentiment
127	Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came. / … / Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it	Abraham Lincoln	War
128	If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offences which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South, this terrible w	Abraham Lincoln	Slavery
129	With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow,	Abraham Lincoln	Malice
130	Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals. Source: quoted in contemporary New York Herald, responding to allegations his most succesful general drank too much.	Abraham Lincoln	Alcolhol

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