Leadership Lessons of Abraham Lincoln by Lincoln Abraham

Author:Lincoln, Abraham
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2011-03-24T16:00:00+00:00

Leadership vs. Tyranny

If a state, in one instance, and a county in another, should be equal in extent of territory, and equal in the number of people, wherein is that state any better than the county? Can a change of name change the right?

—Speech at Indianapolis, Illinois;

February 11, 1861

If the minority will not acquiesce, that majority must, or the government must cease. There is no other alternative; for continuing the government, is acquiescence on one side or the other.

—Lincoln's first Inaugural Address;

March 4, 1861

What mysterious right to play tyrant is conferred on a district of country, with its people, by merely calling it a State?

—Speech at Indianapolis, Illinois;

February 12, 1861

Under these circumstances I have been urgently solicited to establish, by military power, courts to administer summary justice in such cases. I have thus far declined to do it, not because I had any doubt that the end proposed—the collection of the debts—was just and right in itself, but because I have been unwilling to go beyond the pressure of necessity in the unusual exercise of power.

—Message to Congress; December 3, 1861

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 Declaration, not for that, but for future use. Its authors meant it to be as, thank God, it is now proving itself, a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people back into the hateful paths of despotism.

—Speech given in reaction to the

Dred Scott decision; June 26, 1857

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