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With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right. — Abraham Lincoln

Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot. — Elihu Root

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

Hello fake Everett children. — Monet Polny

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

We must never again let America be led into a fratricidal war like the last two world wars, for the sake of alien, minority interests. — George Lincoln Rockwell

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

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

Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. — 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

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

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

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

The post-war loss of Churchill may have damaged the Western world with the same impact as the post-civil war world was damaged by the loss of Lincoln. — Warren Adler

The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be. — Abraham Lincoln

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

Care for him who shall have borne the battle — Abraham Lincoln

Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, . even during a bloody Civil War. — Abraham Lincoln

I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war. — Abraham Lincoln

I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country. — 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

Our state will not ... secede. Have no doubt but Lincoln will make a good president - at least we ought to give him a fair trial. — John Hunt Morgan

You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently. — Abraham Lincoln

America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal. — Lincoln Chafee

It is a good face. I am glad this war is over at last. — Abraham Lincoln

Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed. — Abraham Lincoln

I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game. — Abraham Lincoln

If there is a worse place than Hell, I am in it. — Abraham Lincoln

The Lord spared the fitten and the rest he seen fitten to die. — Abraham Lincoln

It must now atone in blood for its complicity in wickedness. — Abraham Lincoln

Glory to God in the highest, Ohio has saved the Nation. — Abraham Lincoln

I can make brigadier generals, but i can't make horses. — Abraham Lincoln

Really, Mr. Lincoln, I have had enough of this show business. — Ulysses S. Grant

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 know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience. — 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

In the Church he (Lincoln) saw people who, though they hated war as much as the editors did, saw with clarity what the moral alternative was. — Elton Trueblood

Lincoln replied:"There is a difference between secession against the Constitution and in favor of the Constitution. — Clint Johnson

George Washington sets the nation on its democratic path. Abraham Lincoln preserves it. Franklin Roosevelt sees the nation through depression and war. — Robert Dallek

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

President Lincoln chose to fight a bloody and unpopular war because he believed the enemy had to be defeated. He was right. — Pete Hegseth

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. — Abraham Lincoln

We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. — Abraham Lincoln

You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm. — 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

You are green, it is true; but they are green also. You are all green alike. — 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

[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property. — Abraham Lincoln

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