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Abraham Lincoln Quotations on "Freedom"

By Presidential - Posted on 13 April 2009

I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free. - Letter to Horace Greeley
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -- honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best, hope of earth. - Message to Congress
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. - Gettysburg Address
The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. - Address at Baltimore
"We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed." - Speech to the One Hundred Sixty-fourth Ohio Regiment
Every advocate of slavery naturally desires to see blasted, and crushed, the liberty promised the black man by the new constitution. - Letter to Stephen A. Hurlbut