Lincoln Quotes Search by Year 1832 1836 1837 1838 1839 1841 1842 1845 1846 1847 1848 1849 1850 1851 1852 1854 1855 1856 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 Search by Topic Love Inspirational Freedom Politics Humor Leadership Economy Family America Famous Law Religion Tragedy Slavery Morality History Learning About Dred Scott Civil War There are currently 559 quotes in our database. Date Quote Topics Share 02/11/1859 A new country is most favorable – almost necessary – to the emancipation of thought, and the consequent advancement of civilization and the arts. Topics: America 02/11/1859 The inclination to exchange thoughts with one another is probably an original impulse of our nature. Topics: Learning 02/11/1859 There are more mines above the Earth’s surface than below it. All nature – the whole world, material, moral, and intellectual – is a mine. Topics: Learning 02/11/1859 Writing … is the great invention of the world. Topics: Learning 03/01/1859 Stand by your principles; stand by your guns; and victory complete and permanent is sure at the last. Topics: Politics, Inspirational 03/03/1859 I do not think there is the least use of doing any more with the Law suit. I not only do not think you are sure to gain it, but I do think you are sure to lose it. Therefore the sooner it ends the better. Topics: Law 04/16/1859 I must, in candor, say I do not think myself fit for the Presidency. Topics: Leadership 04/30/1859 Of course I would have preferred success; but failing in that, I have no regrets for having rejected all advice to the contrary, and resolutely made the struggle. Topics: Freedom, Politics 05/17/1859 I have some little notoriety for commiserating the oppressed condition of the negro; and I should be strangely inconsistent if I could favor any project for curtailing the existing rights of white men, even though born in different lands, and speaking different languages from myself. Topics: Slavery 05/17/1859 Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of men, I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them. Topics: Slavery 1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950515253545556