Civil war Quote by Abraham Lincoln

But the proclamation, as law, either is valid, or is not valid. If it is not valid, it needs no retraction. If it is…

— Abraham Lincoln

The Emancipation Proclamation is predicated upon the idea that the President may so annul the constitutions and laws of sovereign states, overthrow their domestic…

— Melville Fuller

You know, the Emancipation Proclamation was like giving freedom to domestic animals.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The Emancipation Proclamation...can remind us in 2013 of all the mistakes we never want to commit again but it can also motivate us to…

— Aberjhani

Prohibition didn't work, so why should emancipation work? I think we should just stick with a system that has proven to be effective.

— Zach Braff

The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and enforcement did…

— Corrine Brown

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a…

— Anonymous

If there's anything you absolutely hate, why, it must be unconstitutional. Or, if there's anything you absolutely have to have, it must be required…

— Antonin Scalia

Anything called a "program" is unconstitutional.

— Joseph Sobran

Then it was that were passed the laws restricting emancipation and prohibiting education.

— Henry Charles Carey

“To make our emancipation actual will require both our political mobilizations and our rational arguments; it will require our general strikes and our systematic…

— Martin Hägglund

I think it's unconstitutional on the 10th Amendment front.

— Mitt Romney