Corporations did not achieve the scale we normally associate with them until the 1880s; but it's still hard to imagine that Abraham Lincoln would offered much in the way of determined opposition. William Herndon said that they always thanked the… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
Corporate organization in American business and commerce was already well under way by the time Abraham Lincoln became president. But all the evidence from his pre-war lawyering days is that he had little objection to the rise of corporations. As… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
Remember that Abraham Lincoln was a Whig far longer than he was a Republican. As a whole, the Whigs looked upon banks and corporations… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln would have been happy to have solved the slavery problem by compensation - in fact, drew up a gradual, compensated emancipation plan… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
I suppose I've been interested in Abraham Lincoln for almost as long as I can remember. My first Lincoln book was the Classics Illustrated… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
Patriotism without criticism has no head; criticism without patriotism has no heart. — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
“Men who are industrious, and sober, and honest in the pursuit of their own interests should after a while accumulate capital, and after that… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
“The question is simply this: Can a negro, whose ancestors were imported into this country, and sold as slaves, become a member of the… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
“have got Lee just where I want him; he must fight me on my own ground.” So he waited to see what would happen—which… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
“On the side of the Union,” Lincoln said, it is a struggle for maintaining in the world, that form, and substance of government, whose… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
Corporations did not achieve the scale we normally associate with them until the 1880s; but it's still hard to imagine that Abraham Lincoln would… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
“It seems only human nature to hang the label irrational on what we do not understand, since it is easy for us to assume… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
“Lincoln was “the first great man that I talked with in the United States freely who in no single instance reminded me of the… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
“And so Jefferson wrote the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, which organized the new territories of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin so that slavery… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
“The struggle of the Union and Confederate economies to supply and support their armies thus became a reflection of the prewar antagonism between liberal… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
It is possible to have pardon without forgiveness-a murderer can be pardoned by the governor, but that does not mean the victim's family has… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
