Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Judging

• I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the two which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality, and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Two, White, Differences

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.132, Penguin

• Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Prayer, War, Men

  Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865

• If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Judging, Political

  Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas, Rodney O. Davis, Douglas Lawson Wilson (2008). “The Lincoln-Douglas Debates”, p.32, University of Illinois Press

• Don't judge a man by the size of his ego or his heart, but on the epicness of his beard and the beautiful woman on his arm

  Abraham Lincoln

  Beautiful, Heart, Men

• A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Funny, Success, Humorous

  Abraham Lincoln, Archer Hayes Shaw (1980). “The Lincoln encyclopedia: the spoken and written words of A. Lincoln arranged for ready reference”, Greenwood Pub Group

• When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to have them, he is perfectly logical if there is nothing wrong in the institution; but if you admit that it is wrong, he cannot logically say that anybody has a right to do wrong.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Judging, Community, Slavery

  Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Paul M. Angle (1958). “The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858”, p.334, University of Chicago Press

• Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave of another man, neither that other man nor anybody else has a right to object.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Judging, Principles

  Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher (1977). “Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings”, p.124, Stanford University Press

• Twenty-two years ago Judge [then-Senator Stephen] Douglas and I first became acquainted. We were both young then; he a trifle younger than I. Even then, we were both ambitious; I, perhaps, quite as much so as he. With me, the race of ambition has been a failure--a flat failure; with him it has been one of splendid success.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Ambition, Two, Race

• I hold the value of life is to improve one's condition. Whatever is calculated to advance the condition of the honest, struggling laboring man, so far as my judgment will enable me to judge of a correct thing, I am for that thing.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Struggle, Men, Judging

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.203, Wildside Press LLC

• The foregoing history may not be precisely accurate in every particular; but I am sure it is sufficiently so, for all the uses I shall attempt to make of it, and in it, we have before us,
  the chief material enabling us to correctly judge whether the repeal of the Missouri Compromise is right or wrong.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Judging, Enabling, May

  Address on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, delivered 16 October 1854, Peoria, Illinois

• No man has a right to judge Andrew Johnson in any respect who has not suffered as much and done as much as he for the Nation's sake.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Judging, Done

You May Also Like:

George Washington

John F. Kennedy

John Wilkes Booth

Theodore Roosevelt

Thomas Jefferson

Mary Todd Lincoln

Barack Obama