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Abraham Lincoln Quotes & Quotations

By Presidential - Posted on 13 April 2009

"I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot." - February - (1861) Remarks at the Monogahela House
"If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage." -- February (1861) - Speech at Cleveland, Ohio
"I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain." -- February (1861) - Remarks at Painesville, Ohio
"The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it." - February (1861) - Address to the New Jersey General Assembly
"I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence." - February (1861) - Address in Independence Hall
"One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended." - March (1861) Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
"I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual." - March (1861) - Lincoln's First Inaugural Address