Civil war Quotes by Abraham Lincoln · Page 2

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— 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

I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.

— Abraham Lincoln

I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down but I bite my lip and keep quiet.

— Abraham Lincoln

Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.

— Abraham Lincoln

As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you.

— Abraham Lincoln

Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one. There is involved in this struggle the question whether…

— Abraham Lincoln

I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to…

— Abraham Lincoln

War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the…

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and…

— Abraham Lincoln

I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find…

— Abraham Lincoln

I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your…

— 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…

— Abraham Lincoln

In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not…

— Abraham Lincoln

The time has come when I am for everybody fighting the rebels. Let Indians fight them; let the Negroes fight them; and…

— Abraham Lincoln

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad…

— Abraham Lincoln

That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held…

— Abraham Lincoln

Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance,…

— Abraham Lincoln

I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in…

— Abraham Lincoln

And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves…

— Abraham Lincoln

We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man.…

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

— Abraham Lincoln

I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia.

— Abraham Lincoln

I don't s'pose anybody on earth likes gingerbread better'n I do-and gets less'n I do.

— Abraham Lincoln

Bring me Longstreet's head on a platter and the war will be over

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.

— 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

In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.

— Abraham Lincoln

The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.

— Abraham Lincoln