Authors: Abraham Lincoln

1860–1877

Fragment on the Constitution and Union

Source: New Letters and Papers of Lincoln, compiled by Paul M. Angle (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930), 240–241, https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000318262. All this is not the result of accident. It has a

Read More »
1825–1860

House Divided Speech

Source: Life and Works of Abraham Lincoln, Centenary Edition, Volume III, Marion Mills Miller, ed., (New York: The Current Literature Publishing Company, 1907), 35–46, https://archive.org/details/lifeworks03lincuoft/page/n3. Mr. President and gentlemen of

Read More »
1860–1877

Inaugural Address (1861)

Fellow citizens of the United States: In compliance with a custom as old as government itself, I appear before you to address you briefly, and to take, in your presence,

Read More »
1825–1860

Fragment on Government

The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for

Read More »
1860–1877

Inaugural Address (1865)

Fellow Countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a

Read More »