Civil war Quote by Abraham Lincoln

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

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

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

— Abraham Lincoln

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the…

— Abraham Lincoln

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with…

— Abraham Lincoln

“I fight for the Union because America is supposed to be a land where people can be free from tyranny, where families aren’t ripped…

— Alyssa Cole

Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly forsee that nothing but the rooting out…

— George Washington

For more than half a century... this Union has stood unshaken. Whatever dangers may threaten it, I shall stand by it and maintain it…

— Zachary Taylor

“Bear in mind, now, that most of this work was done by men who had no intention whatever, when they enlisted, of making war…

— Bruce Catton

For years I felt that I wasn't ready to take on slavery. It's a huge topic, and I didn't want to mess it up.

— Colson Whitehead

“It is the people who cannot stand oppression that qualifies to fight today’s modern slavery.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Be faithful, be vigilant, be untiring in your efforts to break every yoke, and let the oppressed go free. Come what may - cost…

— William Lloyd Garrison