Abraham Lincoln Principle Quotations

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.

Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.

Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers.

I believe the declaration that ‘all men are created equal’ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.

The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.

By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

It is the eternal struggle between these two principles -- right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, ''You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.''