Abraham lincoln quotes Quote by Clint Johnson

“If the spirited crowd expected a speech exalting recent Union victories, they were disappointed. In keeping with his lifelong tendency to consider all sides…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“The feckless President Buchanan, who opposed secession, thought the federal government powerless to stop it, and in his last annual message blamed the “incessant…

— Ron Chernow

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

— Belle Boyd

“But one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish.…

— Jessica James

“Abraham Lincoln would maintain that he had never been in favor “of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“When Lincoln was asked if God was on the Union’s side, Lincoln’s unvarying response was that what was really important was whether they were…

— Anonymous

“Same difference,” he said. “The South lost and the North won. Abraham Lincoln came and gave the Emancipation Proclamation.” “The Gettysburg Address,” Mrs. Anderson…

— J.M. Darhower

“Lincoln, who had a personal aversion to blacks and feared they could never be absorbed into a white society, wanted to see them settled…

— James A. Michener

Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free."

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Thinking the move suicidal, Grant believed the South would stop short of the “awful leap” of secession.”

— Ron Chernow

“Lincoln had a masterful grasp of great subjects. He was able to look at events from all sides, so as to appreciate how they…

— Henry Ketcham

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

— Belle Boyd