Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincolnwas the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth12 February 1809
CountryUnited States of America
god struggle party
Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it.
god wise war
We must believe that He permits it [this war] for some wise purpose of his own, mysterious and unknown to us; and though with ourlimited understandings we may not be able to comprehend it, yet we cannot but believe, that he who made the world still governs it.
god god-knows-best mortals
Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.
god light giving
We must work earnestly in the best light He gives us.
wall years lasts
It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this year as well as last.
slavery want policy
We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.
war party slavery
Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease.
men desire slavery
I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.
war party purpose
In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party.
war wish slavery
I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war.
political together half
Our political problem now is "Can we, as a nation, continue together permanentlyforever--half slave, and half free?" The problem is too mighty for me. May God, in his mercy, superintend the solution.
men wish slavery
I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.
dream stupid dumb
The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever robber assails him. So plain, that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master, does constantly know that he is wronged.
liberty slavery prosperity
What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?