Abraham Lincoln Office Quotations

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

If ever this free people, if this Government itself is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this incessant human wriggle and struggle for office, which is but a way to live without work.

Fellow countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first...The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured...

Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.

This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.

I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.