Abraham Lincoln Riot Quotations

The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.

The mystic cords of memory stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone throughout the land

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.

It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness...

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the substance of both law and Gospel, 'Thou shalt love the lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul and thy neighbor as thyself' that church will I join with all my heart and all my soul.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, wi

That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.