"While I in no way endorse the sentiment in this quote, I wish to argue for this quote's inclusion on the grounds that people tend not to be aware that the real Lincoln was not nearly as noble as he is often construed to be. As this quote demonstrates, Lincoln was a racist, not an egalitarian; a collectivist, not an individualist. He does not deserve our worship, nor does any other president. 3 (strongly leaning to 4) allixpeeke (talk) 01:02, 23 August 2014 (UTC)\"

"proposed by anonymous"

"4 allixpeeke (talk) 01:02, 23 August 2014 (UTC)"

"2 allixpeeke (talk) 01:02, 23 August 2014 (UTC)"

"3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 01:42, 4 February 2013 (UTC)"

"3 Suggested by bystander 22:08, 11 February 2012 (UTC) (with a strong lean towards 4)."

"2. The second stanza was previously used in QotD. InvisibleSun 13:28, 10 November 2006 (UTC)"

"3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 15:47, 6 February 2010 (UTC) * 4 Kalki (talk · contributions) 14:30, 3 February 2010 (UTC)with a strong lean toward 4."

"3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 14:30, 3 February 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4."

"3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 14:30, 3 February 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4."

"3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 14:30, 3 February 2010 (UTC)"

"2 allixpeeke (talk) 01:02, 23 August 2014 (UTC) (I know nothing about the man who came up with the quote.)"

"1 Kalki 17:18, 11 February 2009 (UTC) The statement is a great one, but the speaker is a miserable fool and hypocrite, and cowardly in ways he cannot even perceive, and that is the Truth."

"3 Zarbon 16:57, 25 September 2008 (UTC)"

"2 InvisibleSun 23:09, 11 February 2009 (UTC)"

"2 Kalki 17:18, 11 February 2009 (UTC)"

"3 Zarbon 04:07, 18 April 2008 (UTC)"

"3 (strongly leaning to 4) allixpeeke (talk) 01:02, 23 August 2014 (UTC)"

"2 Kalki 23:51, 11 February 2008 (UTC)"

"Owing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable to an individual of any species, in its infinitely complex relations to other organic beings and to external nature, will tend to the preservation of that individual, and will generally be inherited by its offspring. The offspring, also, will thus have a better chance of surviving, for, of the many individuals of any species which are periodically born, but a small number can survive. I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection, in order to mark its relation to man's power of selection. ~ Charles Darwin"

"Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This our convention understood to be the most oppressive of all kingly oppressions, and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us. ~ Abraham Lincoln"

"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"

"There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. ~ Charles Darwin, in The Origin of Species, published 24 November 1859"

"In a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. ~ Abraham Lincoln"

"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. ~ Abraham Lincoln"

"4 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:58, 11 February 2026 (UTC) -->"

"2 (leaning toward 1) allixpeeke (talk) 01:02, 23 August 2014 (UTC) -->"

"4 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:25, 12 February 2022 (UTC) * 3 Kalki 23:51, 11 February 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4."

"proposed by InvisibleSun<!-- * 3 InvisibleSun 18:49, 11 February 2007 (UTC)"

"4 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:29, 11 February 2021 (UTC) 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 14:30, 3 February 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4."

"2, no extension. allixpeeke (talk) 01:02, 23 August 2014 (UTC) -->"

"2 Zarbon 22:14, 22 April 2008 (UTC)"

"3, with extension. InvisibleSun 18:49, 11 February 2007 (UTC)"

"3 Kalki 00:29, 11 February 2007 (UTC) 2 Kalki 23:39, 11 February 2006 (UTC) but I would wish to extend it with "Study to see if you can fix any limit to his power in this respect, after having given him so much as you propose" if it were to be used. Would now extend this substantially, to read:"

"proposed by Liquidice5"

"4 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 11 February 2019 (UTC) [but extended slightly for context]-->"

"3 DanielTom (talk) 09:56, 10 December 2017 (UTC)"

"4. Great quote about the evil of slavery. – Illegitimate Barrister 19:49, 4 August 2015 (UTC) -->"

"1 allixpeeke (talk) 01:02, 23 August 2014 (UTC)."

"4 ♞☤☮♌︎︎Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:37, 10 February 2018 (UTC) 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 14:30, 3 February 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4."

"4 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 21:27, 11 February 2017 (UTC), but extended to read:"

"4 Pithy Francoln (talk) 20:56, 11 October 2016 (UTC)"

"4 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 19:41, 11 February 2016 (UTC) -->"

": "Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never!—All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined ... with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio ... At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide." -->"

"3,5 DanielTom (talk) 23:23, 8 January 2015 (UTC) 4 for the whole:"

"4 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:04, 11 February 2015 (UTC) 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 14:30, 3 February 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4. but expanded for context, even slightly more than suggested below."

"1 Zarbon 22:14, 22 April 2008 (UTC)"

"3 Kalki 23:51, 11 February 2008 (UTC) -->"

"3 InvisibleSun 18:49, 11 February 2007 (UTC) -->"

"3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 18:18, 11 January 2026 (UTC); with a strong lean toward 4."