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We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. In this great… — Abraham Lincoln
I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as… — Abraham Lincoln
We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge… — Abraham Lincoln
I am much indebted to the good Christian people of the country for their constant prayers and consolations; and to no one of them, more… — Abraham Lincoln
Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any… — Abraham Lincoln
Let me tell you what is coming. After the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of lives you may win Southern… — Sam Houston
John Brown's zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light; his was as the burning sun.… — Frederick Douglass
Viewing the man from the genuine abolitionist ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed cold, tardy, weak and unequal to the task. But, viewing him from the sentiments… — Frederick Douglass
In firing his gun, John Brown has merely told what time of day it is. It is high noon. — William Lloyd Garrison
Little did I conceive of the greatness of the defeat (at Bull Run), the magnitude of the disaster which it had entailed upon the United… — William Howard Russell
America has no north, no south, no east, no west. The sun rises over the hills and sets over the mountains, the compass just points… — Unknown Author
The prisoners still keep killing each other thay hung six yesterday thay fight all most every night in the stockade. — Joseph Williams
We may be annihilated, but we cannot be conquered. — Albert Sidney Johnston
The Lord spared the fitten and the rest he seen fitten to die. — Abraham Lincoln
Butler is branded a felon, an outlaw, an enemy of Mankind, and so ordered that in the event of his capture, the officer in command… — Jefferson Davis
Headquarters in the Saddle. — John Pope
Before this war is over, I intend to be a Major General or a corpse. — Unknown Author
He has got the slows, Mr. Blair. — Abraham Lincoln
A restitution of the Union has been rendered forever impossible. — Jefferson Davis
That living specimen of gall and hatred, that individual. — P. G. T. Beauregard
It is glorious to see such courage in one so young. — Robert E. Lee
I can't spare this man, he fights! — Abraham Lincoln
The very same British and American families who had combined to wreck the Indian textile industry in the promotion of the opium trade [...] combined… — John Coleman
The South was at the point where the scale was tipping against slavery. It was slowly dawning on the plantation owners that slave labor was… — John Coleman
There were 315,000 slave owners in the Union Army (with 200,000 in the Confederate Army) and the men who walked away from the Union Army… — John Coleman

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