Abraham Lincoln Desire Quotations

For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

It is my ambition and desire to so administer the affairs of the government while I remain President that if at the end I have lost every other Friend on earth I shall at least have one friend remaining and that one shall be down inside me

You can have anything you want - if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.

If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others

I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general than at present.

It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they shall be constitutionally preserved.

And whereas this House desires to obtain a full knowledge of all the facts which go to establish whether the particular spot of soil which the blood of our citizens was so shed was, or was not, our own soil.

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me

What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out exactly.

You already know I desire that neither Father or Mother shall be in want of any comfort either in health or sickness while they live.

I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.