Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, located in Springfield, Illinois, welcomes tourists, students, researchers and event planners to the complex, which includes Union Station and Union Square Park.
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Date Quote Topics Share Date03/09/1832 QuoteEvery man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men. TopicsTopics: Love Share Date03/09/1832 QuoteHalf finished work generally proves to be labor lost. TopicsTopics: Inspirational Share Date06/13/1836 QuoteI go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms, (by no means excluding females.) TopicsTopics: Freedom, Politics Share Date06/13/1836 QuoteI go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burthens. TopicsTopics: Freedom Share Date06/21/1836 QuoteNo one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them. TopicsTopics: Humor Share Date06/21/1836 QuoteI once had the confidence of the people ... and if I have since done any thing, either by design or misadventure, which if known, would subject me to a forfeiture of that confidence, he that knows of that thing, and conceals it, is a traitor to his country's interest. TopicsTopics: Freedom Share Date01/11/1837 QuoteIn one faculty, at least, there can be no dispute of the gentleman's superiority over me, and most other men; and that is, the faculty of entangling a subject, so that neither himself, or any other man, can find head or tail to it. TopicsTopics: Leadership, Humor Share Date01/11/1837 QuoteIt is an old maxim and a very sound one, that he that dances should always pay the fiddler. TopicsTopics: Economy Share Date01/11/1837 QuoteThese capitalists generally act harmoniously, and in concert, to fleece the people, and now, that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel. TopicsTopics: Economy Share Date01/11/1837 QuoteMr. Chairman, this movement is exclusively the work of politicians; a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people, and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men. I say this with the greater freedom because, being a politician myself, none can regard it as personal.: TopicsTopics: Freedom Share 1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950515253545556 Research and Collections Research Division Research activity including the Papers of Abraham Lincoln. 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