Until the early 90s, when I was working on a project about the idea of free will in American philosophy. I knew that Lincoln had had something to say about "necessity" and "fatalism," and so I began writing him into… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
“One voice was raised in dissent. A Springfield lawyer, a former member of Congress and longtime Whig named Abraham Lincoln, took up Douglas’s defense of Kansas-Nebraska at the Illinois statehouse in Springfield the day after Douglas spoke at the state… — 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
