We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.~Abraham Lincoln
Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society.
~Abraham Lincoln
But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.
~Abraham Lincoln
In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; as bad and good.
~Abraham Lincoln
Some think him conceited, and arrogant; but has he not reason to entertain a rather extensive opinion of himself? Is he not the inventor and owner of the present, and sole hope of the future?
~Abraham Lincoln
[With the Union saved] its form of government is saved to the world; its beloved history, and cherished memories, are vindicated; and its happy future fully assured, and rendered inconceivably grand.
~Abraham Lincoln
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What would you do in my position? Would you drop the war where it is? Or, would you prosecute it in future, with elderstalk squirts, charged with rose water?
~Abraham Lincoln
The struggle of today, is not altogether for today—it is for a vast future also.
~Abraham Lincoln