American civil war Quote by Abraham Lincoln Download Open image “It must now atone in blood for its complicity in wickedness.” — Abraham Lincoln ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare American civil war Blood Civil war Complicity History War Wickedness
The effects of human wickedness are written on the page of history in characters of blood: but the impression soon fades away; so more… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Christ did not make the atonement when he shed his blood upon the cross. Let this fact be fixed forever in the mind. — Uriah Smith Copy Share Image
I do not believe in an atonement which is admirably wide, but fatally ineffectual. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
In the commission of evil, fear no man so much as thyself; another is but one witness against thee, thou art a thousand; another… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
“Wickedness never rests easily so, in a way, one might almost feel pity for the wicked, for they are destined to live their lives… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“No treatment of the atonement can be properly oriented that does not trace its source to the free and sovereign love of God.” — John Murray Copy Share Image
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It cost about 75 cents to kill a man in Ceasar's time. The price rose to about $3,000 per man during the Napoleonic wars;… — Homer Bone Copy Share Image
Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
What began as a bitter dispute over Union and States' Rights, ended as a struggle over the meaning of freedom in America. At Gettysburg… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery .… — Alexander H. Stephens Copy Share Image
“For my part I consider the central idea pervading this struggle is the necessity that is upon us of proving that popular government is… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The triumph of the Confederacy... would be a victory for the powers of evil which would give courage to the enemies of progress and… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Across the river he could see the burnt and crushed buildings of Fredericksburg, the debris piled along the streets, the scattered ruins of people's… — Jeff Shaara Copy Share Image
