"The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declara...

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
~ Abraham Lincoln ~












Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived ...
Show MoreMore Abraham Lincoln quotes
"If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.
"I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptio...
"It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. ...
"These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
"Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you ...
"Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may...
"The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty;...
"It is not in our forming battlements or bristling seacoasts, or our Army and Navy that makes America great - but rather our reliance in the law of lib...
"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 Con...
"Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves