7 Abraham Lincoln Quotes on Hope

Abraham Lincoln quotes on hope

25. We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There is no permanent class of hired laborers amongst us...Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.

38. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best, hope of earth.

82. 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.

84. Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

113. I want it said of me by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

123. No matter how much cats fight, there always seems to be plenty of kittens.

154. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.