War Quote by Jessica James

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

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“the Northern people; whereas, as a matter of fact, but for the assassination of Mr. Lincoln, I believe the great majority of the Northern…

— Ulysses S. Grant

“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

“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

“Abraham Lincoln once said, “The strength of a nation lies in the people—in the homes of the people.” The”

— Billy Graham

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

— Clint Johnson

“Lincoln was equidistant from the heresy which makes a person believed that he can do nothing, and the opposite heresy which makes them suppose…

— Elton Trueblood

Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather…

— Abraham Lincoln

“Abraham Lincoln: Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.”

— John O'Leary

“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

“Lincoln replied that he was more than willing to die, but that he had “done nothing to make any human being remember that he…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

President Lincoln chose to fight a bloody and unpopular war because he believed the enemy had to be defeated. He was right.

— Pete Hegseth