Been Quote by Salmon P. Chase

The Emancipation Proclamation is predicated upon the idea that the President may so annul the constitutions and laws of sovereign states, overthrow their domestic…

— Melville Fuller

“It's a proclamation he regards as complete absolution from answering...as if his last name was Bush, he was eighteen, and there was a draft…

— Laurie Notaro

“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

...So Englishmen saw it. Lincoln's insincerity was regarded as proven by two things: his earlier denial of any lawful right or wish to free…

— Sheldon Vanauken

The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and enforcement did…

— Corrine Brown

“Sumner’s mind keeping the peace abroad was connected with freeing the slaves at home. Repeatedly he tried to convince Lincoln that by issuing an…

— David Herbert Donald

What you have said, Mr. President, fully satisfies me that you have given to every proposition which has been made, a kind and candid…

— Salmon P. Chase

“The few and scattered references of freedpeople suffering from the challenges of emancipation have been overlooked because these episodes do not fit into the…

— Jim Downs

The fact that an African American sits in the White House at the helm of government in the United States of America on this…

— Aberjhani

“Abraham Lincoln is usually regarded as the greatest of all American presidents. When experts rated the presidents on the desire to please others and…

— Adam M. Grant

“based on conversations that took place over a period of eighteen months with the president,”

— Michael Wolff

In every era going back to Lincoln with Frederick Douglass, presidents talk to those that were leading at that time.

— Al Sharpton