War Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

I can't spare this man, he fights!

— Abraham Lincoln

There' s nothing good in war. Except its ending.

— Abraham Lincoln

It's bad. It's damned bad.

— Abraham Lincoln

My God! My God! What will the country say?

— Abraham Lincoln

He has got the slows, Mr. Blair.

— Abraham Lincoln

Care for him who shall have borne the battle

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— 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

It must now atone in blood for its complicity in wickedness.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

“Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody .”

— 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

I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be…

— 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

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

— Abraham Lincoln

So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government; and so to resist…

— Abraham Lincoln

If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would…

— 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

I certainly know that if the war fails, the administration fails, and that I will be blamed for it, whether I deserve…

— Abraham Lincoln

The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It…

— Abraham Lincoln

No State, upon it own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally…

— 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

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

— Abraham Lincoln

What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not...the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of…

— Abraham Lincoln

I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social…

— Abraham Lincoln

Through their deeds, the dead of battle have spoken more eloquently for themselves than any of the living ever could. But we…

— Abraham Lincoln

“At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office there is less occasion for an extended address than there…

— Abraham Lincoln

The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance.…

— Abraham Lincoln

The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may…

— Abraham Lincoln

We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the…

— Abraham Lincoln

The provision of the Constitution giving the war making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons:…

— Abraham Lincoln

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to…

— Abraham Lincoln

“Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion and you allow him…

— Abraham Lincoln

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If…

— Abraham Lincoln