Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Elections

• Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, Fire, Democracies Have
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  The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Presidential

  Speech, 19 May 1856

• A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Thinking, Generations, Election

• I do not deny the possibility that the people may err in an election; but if they do, the true [cure] is in the next election, and not in the treachery of the person elected.

  Abraham Lincoln

  People, May, Next

  Abraham Lincoln, Roy Prentice Basler (1953). “Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”

• I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that "it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams."

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Horse, Men

  Reply to Delegation from National Union League, 9 June 1864.

• We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Government, Might, Election

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.334, Fordham Univ Press

• Elections belong to the people. It's their decision.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Democracies Have, People, Voting

• Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Teaching, Men

  Abraham Lincoln (2011). “Lincoln on War”, p.110, Algonquin Books

• If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to bevery much chagrined.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Disappointment, People, Election

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.25, Penguin

• If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Being Thankful, Election, Ifs

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “Lincoln on Lincoln”, p.26, University Press of Kentucky

• While I am deeply sensible to the high compliment of a re-election; and duly grateful, as I trust, to Almighty God for having directed my countrymen to a right conclusion, as I think, for their own good, it adds nothing to my satisfaction that any other man may be disappointed or pained by the result.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Grateful, Men

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.63, Jazzybee Verlag

• [If not re-elected in 1864] then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he can not possibly save it afterwards.

  Abraham Lincoln

  President, Unions, Election

  Abraham Lincoln (2002). “Conversations With Lincoln”, p.359, Transaction Publishers

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