Civil war Quotes by Abraham Lincoln · Page 2

confused and Stunned, like a duck hit on the head.

— Abraham Lincoln

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.

— Abraham Lincoln

I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.

— Abraham Lincoln

God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time.

— 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

We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We…

— 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

You say you will not fight to free negroes. Some of them seem willing to fight for you; but, no matter. Fight…

— Abraham Lincoln

As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created…

— Abraham Lincoln

And then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and…

— Abraham Lincoln

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with…

— 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

The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was…

— 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 pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the…

— Abraham Lincoln

I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken; and to the extent of my…

— Abraham Lincoln

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think,…

— Abraham Lincoln

But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead,…

— Abraham Lincoln

Negro equality, Fudge!! How long in the Government of a God great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue…

— Abraham Lincoln

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty

— Abraham Lincoln

Every man has a right to be equal with every other man.

— Abraham Lincoln

“The hen is the wisest of all the animal creation, because she never cackles until the egg is laid.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— 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