Abraham Lincoln Quote

Wise statesmen... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity should look up again at the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began....


Selections from the Works of Abraham Lincoln (ed. 1893)


Wise statesmen... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up...

Wise statesmen... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up...

Wise statesmen... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up...

Wise statesmen... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up...