Property is the fruit of labor—property is desirable—is a positive good in the world.~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
Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better, or equal hope, in the world?~Abraham Lincoln
How miserably things seem to be arranged in this world. If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.~Abraham Lincoln
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It may be affirmed, without extravagance, that the free institutions we enjoy, have developed the powers, and improved the condition, of our whole people, beyond any example in the world.~Abraham Lincoln
Common looking people are the best in the world.~Abraham Lincoln
The world will little note nor long remember what we say here.~Abraham Lincoln
What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?~Abraham Lincoln
A right result, at this time, will be worth more to the world, than ten times the men, and ten times the money.~Abraham Lincoln
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to ever expect it.~Abraham Lincoln
If he talks ambiguously—talks for his country with "buts" and "ifs" and "ands."~Abraham Lincoln
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Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.~Abraham Lincoln
I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.~Abraham Lincoln
What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?~Abraham Lincoln
Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others.~Abraham Lincoln
Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.~Abraham Lincoln