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With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.
— Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before.
— Marianne Williamson
Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time.
— Abraham Lincoln
My God! My God! What will the country say?
— Abraham Lincoln
In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party.
— Abraham Lincoln
There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.
— Abraham Lincoln
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.
— Abraham Lincoln
My Dear McClellan, if you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully.
— Abraham Lincoln
My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.
— Abraham Lincoln
Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.
— Abraham Lincoln
The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea.
— Abraham Lincoln
With this honor devolves upon you also a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts you, so under God it will sustain you.
— Abraham Lincoln
He has got the slows, Mr. Blair.
— Abraham Lincoln
President Abraham Lincoln never lost his ardor for the United States to remain united during the Civil War.
— Douglas Brinkley
I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.
— Abraham Lincoln
I don't s'pose anybody on earth likes gingerbread better'n I do-and gets less'n I do.
— Abraham Lincoln
I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down but I bite my lip and keep quiet.
— Abraham Lincoln
The Almighty has His own purposes.
— Abraham Lincoln
One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended.
— Abraham Lincoln
I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.
— Abraham Lincoln
If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they'd have to sleep standing up.
— Abraham Lincoln
A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability.
— Abraham Lincoln
His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.
— Abraham Lincoln
Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.
— Abraham Lincoln
I am in favor of a national bank ... in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff.
— Abraham Lincoln
So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!
— Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln. When he met Stowe, it is claimed that he said, So you're the little woman that started this great war!
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Lord spared the fitten and the rest he seen fitten to die.
— Abraham Lincoln
War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.
— Abraham Lincoln
Every man has a right to be equal with every other man.
— Abraham Lincoln
Bring me Longstreet's head on a platter and the war will be over
— Abraham Lincoln
You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.
— Abraham Lincoln
Glory to God in the highest, Ohio has saved the Nation.
— Abraham Lincoln
It must now atone in blood for its complicity in wickedness.
— Abraham Lincoln
If there is a worse place than Hell, I am in it.
— Abraham Lincoln
I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the war.
— Abraham Lincoln
Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.
— Abraham Lincoln
It is a good face. I am glad this war is over at last.
— Abraham Lincoln
If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would have been ended before this.
— Abraham Lincoln
I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country.
— Abraham Lincoln
I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war.
— Abraham Lincoln
Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, . even during a bloody Civil War.
— Abraham Lincoln
Care for him who shall have borne the battle
— Abraham Lincoln
I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.
— Abraham Lincoln
The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be.
— Abraham Lincoln
I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.
— Abraham Lincoln
Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.
— Abraham Lincoln
The war, the American Civil War of 1861-1865, would never have been possible without the sinister influence of the Jesuits.
— Abraham Lincoln
If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.
— Abraham Lincoln
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.
— Abraham Lincoln
I know the hole he went in at, but I can't tell you what hole he will come out of.
— Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln replied:"There is a difference between secession against the Constitution and in favor of the Constitution.
— Clint Johnson
I can't spare this man, he fights!
— Abraham Lincoln
Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.
— Abraham Lincoln
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
— Abraham Lincoln
I can make brigadier generals, but i can't make horses.
— Abraham Lincoln
We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.
— Abraham Lincoln
The better angels of our nature
— Abraham Lincoln
Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody.
— Abraham Lincoln
I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia.
— Abraham Lincoln
Confused and Stunned, like a duck hit on the head.
— Abraham Lincoln
The hen is the wisest of all the animal creation, because she never cackles until the egg is laid.
— Abraham Lincoln
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
— Abraham Lincoln
I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.
— Abraham Lincoln
You say you will not fight to free negroes. Some of them seem willing to fight for you; but, no matter. Fight you, then exclusively to save the Union.
— Abraham Lincoln
I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game.
— Abraham Lincoln
As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you.
— Abraham Lincoln
I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.
— Abraham Lincoln
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