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Abraham Lincoln Quotes & Quotations

By Presidential - Posted on 13 April 2009

"I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken; and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States." - March (1861) - Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
"The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776." - March (1861) - Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
"The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." - March (1861) - Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
"Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy." - March (1861)- Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
"In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend it'." - March (1861) - Lincoln's First Inaugural Address