President Quote by William Lee Miller

Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.

— L. Neil Smith

The situation Abraham Lincoln faced was unique. In his view, the United States was threatened with destruction, ruin, overthrow, perishing - all words that…

— William Lee Miller

What Abraham Lincoln had to face was a culturally and politically cohesive bloc of states comprising half the country, refusing to discuss even the…

— Allen C. Guelzo

All presidents - particularly war presidents, presidents inclined to the imperial presidency - invoke Abraham Lincoln as a justification, but they omit these three…

— William Lee Miller

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

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Emergency does not increase granted power or remove or diminish the restrictions imposed upon power granted or reserved. The Constitution was adopted in a…

— Charles Evans Hughes

“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

Abraham Lincoln would have been happy to have solved the slavery problem by compensation - in fact, drew up a gradual, compensated emancipation plan…

— Allen C. Guelzo

“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

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

— Clint Johnson

...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

In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.

— W. E. B. Du Bois