More quotes by Abraham Lincoln

"The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.--as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS"
"In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth."
"My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter usfrom the support of a cause we believe to be just."