Book Quote by Allen C. Guelzo

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

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

The one who pursues revenge should dig two graves.

— Allen C. Guelzo

Patriotism without criticism has no head; criticism without patriotism has no heart.

— Allen C. Guelzo

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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