President

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

Keprihatinan besar saya bukan Apakah Anda telah gagal, tetapi apakah Anda puas dengan kegagalan.

Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn't get there.

Kami bukan musuh, tapi teman. Kita tidak harus menjadi musuh. Meskipun nafsu mungkin telah tegang, itu tidak boleh memutuskan ikatan kasih sayang kita. Akord kenangan mistik, membentang dari setiap medan pertempuran, dan kuburan patriot, ke setiap hati yang hidup dan batu perapian, di seluruh negeri yang luas ini, akan membengkak paduan suara Persatuan, ketika disentuh lagi, sebagaimana pasti mereka akan, oleh malaikat yang lebih baik dari sifat kita.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Anda tidak bisa melakukan hal yang benar dengan cara yang salah.

Ketika saya melakukan hal yang baik, maka saya merasa baik. Ketika saya melakukan hal yang buruk, maka saya merasa buruk. Itulah agama saya.

Sayang sekali apabila ada orang yang tidak lebih bijak dari dirinya dari hari kemarin.

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

Tak pernah sekali pun saya berusaha untuk dikenang dunia, hidupku ini kubaktikan pada peristiwa-peristiwa di sekitar, bagi generasi dan jamanku, semata-mata agar diriku terjalin dengan sesuatu yang penting bagi sesamaku.

Mereka yang mengingkari kebebasan orang lain tidak layak akan kebebasan itu; dan dibawah aturan Tuhan, tidak ada yang mampu menahan kebebasan.

Saya kalahkan musuh-musuh saya dengan membuat mereka menjadi sahabat saya.

I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.

We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.

Jangan khawatir bila anda tidak diakui, tetapi berusahalah agar anda layak untuk diakui.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say.