Abraham Lincoln Favors Quotations

No one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them; but in this case, favour to me,would be injustice to the public, and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it.

And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God.

I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.

I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff.