Abraham Lincoln Messages

In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this book.

I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

The United States government must not undertake to run the Churches. When an individual, in the Church or out of it, becomes dangerous to the public interest he must be checked.

A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved – I do not expect the house to fall – but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed

I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?

Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.