Civil war Quote by Anonymous

Mr. Lincoln is already defeated. He cannot be re-elected.

— Horace Greeley

I'm not sure Lincoln would fare well if he were a presidential candidate today.

— David Herbert Donald

. . . unless there comes to the Nation a greater emancipation than Lincoln's Proclamation effected, it is doomed, it is bound to go down.

— Francis James Grimke

Now if you should hear any one say that Lincoln don't [sic] want to go to Congress, I wish you as a personal friend…

— Abraham Lincoln

I will not nullify, I will not secede, but I will under sovereign State authority fight in the Union another revolutionary conflict for civil…

— Henry A. Wise

“The most sanctified figure in American historiography is, by no accident, the Great Saint of centralizing "democracy" and the strong unitary nation-state: Abraham Lincoln.…

— Murray Rothbard

The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.

— Belle Boyd

“Lincoln replied:"There is a difference between secession against the Constitution and in favor of the Constitution.”

— Clint Johnson

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

— Barack Obama

I will make a prophecy that may now sound peculiar. In fifty years Lincoln's name will be inscribed close to Washington's on this Republic's…

— Carl Schurz

Lincoln would be just like me. He wouldn't know what the hell to do.

— George W. Norris

As long as it served his purpose, Mr. Lincoln boldly advocated the right of Secession.

— Belle Boyd