• Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.
  • Communication to the People of Sangamo County (9 March 1832)

• These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.
  • Speech to Illinois legislature, (January 1837); This is "Lincoln's First Reported Speech", found in the Sangamo Journal (28 January 1837) according to McClure's Magazine (March 1896); also in Lincoln's Complete Works (1905) ed.^ Lincoln read some of these works.
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    ^ Taylor is not only to consent to, but appeal to the people to judge and act for themselves.
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    ^ This is why they have people writing speeches for them is it not?
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    by .Nicolay and Hay, Vol.^ Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln, Nicolay & Hay edition, vol.
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    ^ See also John G. Nicolay and John Hay, Abraham Lincoln: A History (New York: ; The Century Company, 1890), vol.
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    1, p. .24.

• I have now come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason; I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.^ I think the time has come now.
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  ^ I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
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  ^ He’s never curious enough to look elsewhere for enlightenment nor would he recognize it, helpless in his high chair kept prisoner by his adult keepers.
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  • Letter to Mrs. Orville H. Browning (1 April 1838)

• Broken by it, I, too, may be; bow to it I never will. .The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me.^ Party bias may help to make it appear so; but, with all the allowance I can make for such bias, it still does appear to me that just such, and from just such necessity, are the President's struggles in this case.
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  ^ This, too, is dealing justly with all, and leaving us in a mood to support heartily whoever shall be nominated.
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  ^ My intent is merely to show that the South had just cause for believing secession was legal.
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  • Speech of the Sub-Treasury (1839), Collected Works 1:178
  • Variant (misspelling): The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; and it shall not deter me.

• I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class.^ The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
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  ^ I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class.
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  ^ Party bias may help to make it appear so; but, with all the allowance I can make for such bias, it still does appear to me that just such, and from just such necessity, are the President's struggles in this case.
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  .There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.^ There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.
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  .
  • Address to the Springfield Washingtonian Temperance Society (22 February 1842), quoted at greater length in John Carroll Power (1889) Abraham Lincoln: His Life, Public Services, Death and Funeral Cortege

• I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.^ Try to secure the services of Abraham Lincoln, of Springfield.
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  ^ What qualities in Abraham Lincoln make him the best… .
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  ^ In 1842, Mr. Lincoln delivered a temperance speech in Springfield, before the Washingtonian Temperance Society.
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  • Letter to Allen N. Ford (11 August 1846), reported in Roy Prentice Basler, ed., Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings (1990 [1946]).

.

Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary...^ Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose, and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

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^ It is that if it shall become necessary to repel invasion, the President may, without violation of the Constitution, cross the line and invade the territory of another country, and that whether such necessity exists in any given case the President is the sole judge.

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and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

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• Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose, and you allow him to make war at pleasure. Study to see if you can fix any limit to his power in this respect, after having given him so much as you propose.^ Study to see if you can fix any limit to his power in this respect, after you have given him so much as you propose.
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  ^ I will always see you with a new pleasure."
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  ^ A State may well say to the nation, "If you will do nothing for me, I will do nothing for you."
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  .If to-day he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him?^ You may say to him,--"I see no probability of the British invading us"; but he will say to you, "Be silent: I see it, if you don't."
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  ^ If, to-day, he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada, to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him?
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  ^ You may say to him, I see no probability of the British invading us but he will say to you be silent; I see it, if you dont.
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  .You may say to him, — "I see no probability of the British invading us"; but he will say to you, "Be silent: I see it, if you don't."^ Please, why don’t you say it?
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  ^ You may say it's a wrong instinct.
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  ^ You may say to him,--"I see no probability of the British invading us"; but he will say to you, "Be silent: I see it, if you don't."
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  .To provision of the Constitution giving the war making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object.^ In essence, Lincoln invented the idea of commander in chief, as neither the Constitution nor existing legislation specified how the president ought to declare war or dictate strategy.
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  ^ Lincoln knew when war was necessary and he fought it, giving his generals everything they needed to win.
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  ^ But, a little patient firmness, prudence, and steady conduct, with the People at home, and active, aggressive war upon the armed enemy, will make all right.
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  .This our convention understood to be the most oppressive of all kingly oppressions, and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us. But your view destroys the whole matter, and places our President where kings have always stood.^ But your view destroys the whole matter, and places our President where kings have always stood.
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  ^ They are not the product of any code of laws or any man, no matter how powerful.
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  ^ This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.
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  .
  • Letter, while US Congressman, to his friend and law-partner William H. Herndon, opposing the Mexican-American War (15 February 1848)

• The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject any thing, is not whether it have any evil in it; but whether it have more of evil, than of good.^ But it is more a religious than a civil war.
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  ^ The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject any thing, is not whether it have any evil in it; but whether it have more of evil, than of good.
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  ^ The true rule, in determining to embrace or reject anything, is not whether it have any evil in it, but whether it have more of evil than of good.
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  .There are few things wholly evil, or wholly good.^ There are few things wholly evil, or wholly good.
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  ^ There are few things wholly evil or wholly good.
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  ^ There are a few things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works even without complying with the full terms of this agreement.
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  .Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two; so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.^ Almost everything, especially of Government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded."
  • The Reincarnation of Abraham Lincoln and John Kennedy 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.near-death.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two; so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.
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  ^ Almost every thing, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two; so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.
  • Abraham Lincoln 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.quinnipiac.edu [Source type: Original source]
  
  .
  • Speech in the House of Representatives (20 June 1848)

• Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.^ Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
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  ^ Duncan Kenner, one of the biggest slaveholders in the South and the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of the Confederate House of Representatives, strongly supported this proposal.
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  ^ One of Lincoln's most representative public statements on the question of racial relations was given in a speech at Springfield, Illinois, on June 26, 1857.
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  .
  • Speech in the House of Representatives (20 June 1848)

• The way for a young man to rise, is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that any body wishes to hinder him.^ The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
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  ^ The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
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  ^ If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.
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  .
  • Letter to William H Herndon (10 July 1848)

• The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.^ The better part of one's life consists of his friendships; and, of them, mine with Mr. Edwards was one of the most cherished.
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  ^ The Stuart letter is, for the most part, devoted to the narration of "some facts" which Mr. Stuart is said to have presented to Mr. Herndon, beginning with this: "That Eddie, a child of Mr. Lincoln, died in 1848 or 1849," etc.
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  ^ He had the benefit of the collection of manuscripts pertaining to Lincoln gathered by William H. Herndon, who knew the real Lincoln better than any other man.
  • Abraham Lincoln, Deist, and Admirer of Thomas Paine 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.positiveatheism.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  .
  • Letter to Joseph Gillespie (13 July 1849)

• The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves.^ In giving; freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free.
  • The Project Gutenberg eBook of; ABRAHAM LINCOLN,; by JOHN DRINKWATER.; 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.gutenberg.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ In giving freedom to the ; slave, we assure freedom to the free….
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  ^ As Union armies invaded the South, tearing up railroads and demolishing bridges, free blacks and slaves repaired them.
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  .
  • Letter to George Robertson (15 August 1855)

• You enquire where I now stand.^ You inquire where I now stand.
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  ^ Abraham Lincoln "Letter to George Robertson (August 15, 1855)," in Basler p.
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  ^ I now enclose you the letter, which you may use if you see fit.
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  .That is a disputed point. I think I am a whig; but others say there are no whigs, and that I am an abolitionist.^ I think that there is no occasion for any excitement.
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  ^ I think I am a Whig; but others say there are no Whigs, and that I am an Abolitionist.
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  ^ I see no other way to avoid the worst consequences there.
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  .When I was at Washington I voted for the Wilmot Proviso as good as forty times, and I never heard of any one attempting to unwhig me for that.^ When I was at Washington, I voted for the Wilmot Proviso as good as forty times; and I never heard of any one attempting to un-Whig me for that.
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  ^ He never heard any one say so, and he had asked thousands.
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  ^ I never heard a single one of these sermons, but what was taken up with the obligations and duties of slaves to their masters.
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  .I now do more than oppose the extension of slavery.^ I now do no more than oppose the extension of slavery.
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  ^ More than that I cannot promise now.
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  ^ We have come together as in some sort representatives of popular opinion against the extension of slavery into territory now free in fact as well as by law, and the pledged word of the statesmen of the nation who are now no more.
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  I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? .How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor of degrading classes of white people?^ How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes be in favor of degrading classes of white people?
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  ^ But how are they in the number of their white people?
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  ^ There are plenty of men in the North who will furnish the negroes with arms if there is any oppression of them by their late masters.
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  .Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid.^ Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid.
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  .As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty — to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be take pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy [sic].^ Some of them declared it as their desire that it should.
  • Abraham Lincoln and Indiana - Abraham Lincoln's Classroom 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ His successor in the leadership has written the word "white" before men, making it read "all white men are created equal."
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  ^ They were skeptics all -- scoffers some.
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  • Letter to longtime friend and slave-holder Joshua F. Speed (24 August 1855)

• If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.^ You can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not."
  • Abraham Lincoln: A Man of His Time, A Man for All Times 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.gilderlehrman.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
  
  ^ It is more formidable than you suspect.
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  ^ You can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that ; you will not."
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  .It is but a small matter whether you read with anyone or not.^ Now Sir, I would ask you whether there is not some way in which the Government can aid us and itself and the Union cause in this matter.
  • Abraham Lincoln and Kentucky - Abraham Lincoln's Classroom 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  .I did not read with anyone.^ Now, anyone who reads his evidence cannot fail to observe that he did intend to cover Lincoln's entire life and character.
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  .Get the books, and read and study them till you understand them in their principal features; and that is the main thing.^ Examine and study every sentence of that speech thoroughly, and you will understand the whole subject.
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  ^ As I kept reading into it in books, scholarly journals, and magazinesand discussing it all with historians and legal scholars, I slowly had to revise my understanding of what happened.
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  ^ I read once, in a blackletter law book, "a slave is a human being who is legally not a person but a thing."
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  It is of no consequence to be in a large town while you are reading. .I read at New Salem, which never had three hundred people living in it.^ But can he, in the nature of things, know the wants of the people as well as three hundred other men coining from all the various localities of the nation?
  • Abraham Lincoln 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.quinnipiac.edu [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ What do the millions of people now living, who never heard of this book, do to know how to distinguish right from wrong?
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  ^ It was his honest belief, a belief which it was no reproach to hold at New Salem, Anno Domini 1834, and one which he never thought of concealing.
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  .The books, and your capacity for understanding them, are just the same in all places....^ Foster, apologizing for not seeing her: “at the moment of your departure from this place yesterday.” He further thanks her for the books that she sent to him.
  • Collections held in the Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum | Carnegie-Vincent Library - We're here to help you – Information Literacy – Databases – Subject Guides 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC library.lmunet.edu [Source type: Academic]
  
  ^ "And in the first place, you are to be obedient and subject to your masters in all things.
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  ^ As I kept reading into it in books, scholarly journals, and magazinesand discussing it all with historians and legal scholars, I slowly had to revise my understanding of what happened.
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  .Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing.^ Be not more savage than a lion or a bear."
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  ^ It will become all one thing, or all the other.
  • The Great Emancipator Abraham Lincoln and the Issue of Race 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.ihr.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ It will become all one thing or all the other.
  • Abraham Lincoln and Ohio - Abraham Lincoln's Classroom 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org [Source type: Original source]
  
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  • Letter to Isham Reavis (5 November 1855)

• We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.^ We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.
  • The Writings of Abraham Lincoln - Volume 2: 1843-1858 / Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
  
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  • Speech at Bloomington (29 May 1856)

• Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.^ Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
  • Abraham Lincoln Quotes :: Quoteland :: Quotations by Author 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.quoteland.com [Source type: Original source]
  • The Great Emancipator Abraham Lincoln and the Issue of Race 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.ihr.org [Source type: Original source]
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  ^ On the 22d of May, two days after the speech, Brooks entered the ; Senate Chamber on the same errand.
  • Abraham Lincoln, A History, Volume 2 by John George Nicolay and John Hay - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/8) 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ On the ; 19th and 20th of May, 1856, he delivered an elaborate speech in the ; Senate, occupying two days.
  • Abraham Lincoln, A History, Volume 2 by John George Nicolay and John Hay - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/8) 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
  
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  • Speech at Springfield, Illinois (26 June 1857)

• Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man, this race and that race and the other race being inferior and therefore they must be placed in an inferior position.^ They outnumber us, but we must outmanage them.
  • The Writings of Abraham Lincoln - Volume 2: 1843-1858 / Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ If so, we must discard all government.
  • The Writings of Abraham Lincoln - Volume 2: 1843-1858 / Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.
  • Abraham Lincoln Quotes :: Quoteland :: Quotations by Author 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.quoteland.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  .Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal.
  • Address to Chicago Abolitionists (10 July 1858); quoted in Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1953), 501

• I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists.^ I remember all these things distinctly; for I was with them, heard them, and was one of them.
  • Six Historic Americans: Abraham Lincoln 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ In his July 4 message to Congress, Lincoln reiterated the inaugural pledge that he had 'no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with slavery in the States where it exists.'"
  • Reason the Reconstruction ended in 1877 was? - Yahoo! Answers 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC answers.yahoo.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Rutgers University Press, 1947.
  • Guidon Books Lincoln Library 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.guidon.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
  
  .I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
  • First Debate with Stephen Douglas in the Lincoln-Douglas debates of the 1858 campaign for the US Senate, at Ottawa, Illinois (21 August 1858).^ The 1858 campaign featured the Lincoln-Douglas debates, a nationally famous contest on slavery.
    • Who was ABRAHAM LINCOLN? - Yahoo! Answers 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC answers.yahoo.com [Source type: Original source]
    
    ^ I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
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    ^ I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."
    • The Great Emancipator Abraham Lincoln and the Issue of Race 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.ihr.org [Source type: Original source]
    
    .Lincoln later quoted himself and repeated this statement in his first Inaugural Address (4 March 1861) to emphasize that any acts of secession were over-reactions to his election.^ To the South, Lincoln's election was the signal for secession.
    • Who was ABRAHAM LINCOLN? - Yahoo! Answers 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC answers.yahoo.com [Source type: Original source]
    
    ^ Lincoln's second inaugural address is also greatly admired and often quoted.
    • Who was ABRAHAM LINCOLN? - Yahoo! Answers 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC answers.yahoo.com [Source type: Original source]
    
    ^ But Lincoln supported that in his first inaugural.
    • The Real Abraham Lincoln: A Debate: Events: The Independent Institute 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.independent.org [Source type: Original source]
    
    .During the war which followed his election he eventually declared the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the slaves in those states in rebellion against the union, arguably as a war measure rather than as an entirely political or moral initiative.

• With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.^ Nothing could be plainer than that, just as nothing; could be plainer than his determination to free the slaves when he can.
  • The Project Gutenberg eBook of; ABRAHAM LINCOLN,; by JOHN DRINKWATER.; 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.gutenberg.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.
  • Abraham Lincoln Quotes :: Quoteland :: Quotations by Author 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.quoteland.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.
  • Abraham Lincoln Quotes :: Quoteland :: Quotations by Author 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.quoteland.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  .Consequently he who moulds public sentiment, goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions.^ He who molds the public sentiment...
  • Abraham Lincoln Quotes :: Quoteland :: Quotations by Author 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.quoteland.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ To those who followed his lead in public affairs, it more appropriately belongs to pronounce his eulogy and pay specific honors to the memory of the illustrious dead.
  • The Writings of Abraham Lincoln - Volume 2: 1843-1858 / Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ I suppose we truly stand for the public sentiment of Sangamon on the great question of the repeal, although we do not yet represent many numbers who have taken a distinct position on the question.
  • The Writings of Abraham Lincoln - Volume 2: 1843-1858 / Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  .He makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to be executed.^ Lincoln made difficult decisions and restored the United States, making the following century of progress possible.
  • Pajamas Media » Why George W. Bush Reminds Me of Abraham Lincoln 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC pajamasmedia.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
  
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  • First debate with Stephen Douglas Ottawa, Illinois, (21 August 1858)

• I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races.^ On the defensive, Lincoln countered that he was "not in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races."
  • Who was ABRAHAM LINCOLN? - Yahoo! Answers 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC answers.yahoo.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ 'All men are created equal,' he would say, on the authority of the Declaration of Independence, only to add: 'I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races.'
  • Reason the Reconstruction ended in 1877 was? - Yahoo! Answers 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC answers.yahoo.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Illinois Politics in 1858.
  • Abraham Lincoln, A History, Volume 2 by John George Nicolay and John Hay - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/8) 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  .I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality.^ In another speech that he gave that year, Lincoln said much the same thing: ; I will say, then, that I am not nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way, the social and political equality of the white and black races; that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters of the free negroes, or jurors, or qualifying them to hold office, or having them to marry white people.
  • Reason the Reconstruction ended in 1877 was? - Yahoo! Answers 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC answers.yahoo.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races; I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.
  • The Great Emancipator Abraham Lincoln and the Issue of Race 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.ihr.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ "Lincoln spelled out his position with clarity: 'I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races, (applause)--that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the races which I believe will for ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality.'"
  • Reason the Reconstruction ended in 1877 was? - Yahoo! Answers 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC answers.yahoo.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ... .And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.^ I will say in addition, that there is a physical difference between the white and black races, which, I suppose, will forever forbid the two races living together upon terms of social and political equality, and inasmuch as they cannot so live, that while they do remain together, there must be the position of superior and inferior, that I as much as any other man am in favor of the superior position being assigned to the white man.
  • Reason the Reconstruction ended in 1877 was? - Yahoo! Answers 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC answers.yahoo.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position, the negro should be denied everything.
  • Abraham Lincoln and Ohio - Abraham Lincoln's Classroom 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.
  • Abraham Lincoln Quotes :: Quoteland :: Quotations by Author 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.quoteland.com [Source type: Original source]
  
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  • Fourth Lincoln-Douglas Debate (18 September 1858)

• I have never had the least apprehension that I or my friends would marry negroes if there was no law to keep them from it, but as Judge Douglas and his friends seem to be in great apprehension that they might, if there were no law to keep them from it, I give him the most solemn pledge that I will to the very last stand by the law of this State, which forbids the marrying of white people with negroes.^ I will stand by Judge Douglas in that to the bitter end.
  • Abraham Lincoln and Ohio - Abraham Lincoln's Classroom 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Custis : Mista Lincoln great friend of my people.
  • The Project Gutenberg eBook of; ABRAHAM LINCOLN,; by JOHN DRINKWATER.; 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.gutenberg.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Lincoln:_ They leave no opening?
  • Abraham Lincoln by John Drinkwater - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/2) 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
  
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  • Fourth Lincoln-Douglas Debate (18 September 1858).

• It is the eternal struggle between these two principles — right and wrong — throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time; and will ever continue to struggle.^ LINCOLN Your general principles are right.
  • ABRAHAM LINCOLN: Victory and Death by Sanderson Beck 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC san.beck.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ (Fourth Lincoln-Douglas Debate: Douglas' Reply, in Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, p.
  • Reason the Reconstruction ended in 1877 was? - Yahoo! Answers 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC answers.yahoo.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Blindness at the similarities between these two.
  • Pajamas Media » Why George W. Bush Reminds Me of Abraham Lincoln 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC pajamasmedia.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
  
  .The one is the common right of humanity, and the other the divine right of kings.^ In some respects she certainly is not my equal; but in her natural right to eat the bread she earns with her own hands, without asking leave of any one else, she is my equal and the equal of all others.
  • The Writings of Abraham Lincoln - Volume 2: 1843-1858 / Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Judge Douglas's popular sovereignty, as a principle, was simply this: If one man chooses to make a slave of another man, neither that other man or anybody else has a right to object.
  • Abraham Lincoln and Indiana - Abraham Lincoln's Classroom 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ I insist that whether I shall be a whole man or only the half of one, in comparison with others is a question in which I am somewhat concerned, and one which no other man can have a sacred right of deciding for me.
  • The Writings of Abraham Lincoln - Volume 2: 1843-1858 / Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  .It is the same principle in whatever shape it develops itself.^ In Indiana, from 1817 to 1830, it manifested the same qualities or attributes as in Kentucky: it only intensified, developed itself, along those lines in Indiana.
  • Six Historic Americans: Abraham Lincoln 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  .It is the same spirit that says, "You toil and work and earn bread, and I'll eat it."^ That is their argument, and this argument of the Judge is the same old serpent that says you work and I eat, you toil and I will enjoy the fruits of it.
  • Abraham Lincoln Quotes :: Quoteland :: Quotations by Author 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.quoteland.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ It is the same spirit that says, You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.
  • Abraham Lincoln Quotes :: Quoteland :: Quotations by Author 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.quoteland.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ In some respects she certainly is not my equal; but in her natural right to eat the bread she earns with her own hands, without asking leave of any one else, she is my equal and the equal of all others.
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  .No matter in what shape it comes, whether from the mouth of a king who seeks to bestride the people of his own nation and live by the fruit of their labor, or from one race of men as an apology for enslaving another race, it is the same tyrannical principle.
  • Seventh and Last Joint Debate with Steven Douglas, at Alton, Illinois (15 October 1858)

• Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.^ Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.
  • The Writings of Abraham Lincoln - Volume 2: 1843-1858 / Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ People own themselves.
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  ^ It could have no principle beyond the intention of those who made it.
  • The Writings of Abraham Lincoln - Volume 2: 1843-1858 / Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
  
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  • Letter to Henry L Pierce and others (6 April 1859)

• Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of men, I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them.^ The newspapers in both cities were swamped with letters and statements, all tending to establish that Montgomery, Merritt, and Conover were men of poor reputation and that their testimony was false.
  • Reason the Reconstruction ended in 1877 was? - Yahoo! Answers 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC answers.yahoo.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ But however this may be, we know the opening of new countries to slavery tends to the perpetuation of the institution, and so does keep men in slavery who would otherwise be free.
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  ^ Also, have six, eight or ten of our best known Whig friends there write to me individual letters, stating the truth in this matter as they understand it.
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  • Letter to Dr. Theodore Canisius (17 May 1859)

• Negro equality! Fudge!! .How long, in the government of a God, great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend, and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagougeism as this?^ There is no limit to the development and progress of the human mind, and it is not too much to hope that eternal right and quite infinite justice shall be the great rule of mankind.” .
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  ^ There is no ; limit to the development and progress of the human mind, and it is not too much ; to hope that eternal right and quite infinite justice shall be the great rule of ; mankind."
  • Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum, Collection - Repository ;Guide 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.lmunet.edu [Source type: Academic]
  
  ^ My doctrine is, that a faithful servant who is prepared to make great sacrifices of personal comfort for the public good ought to be continued.
  • Abraham Lincoln and Ohio - Abraham Lincoln's Classroom 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org [Source type: Original source]
  
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  • Fragments: Notes for Speeches, September 1859, The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (1953) Vol.^ Roy P. Basler, editor,  Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln,  (Telegram from John Schofield to Abraham Lincoln, May 27, 1863), Volume VI, p.
    • Abraham Lincoln and Missouri - Abraham Lincoln's Classroom 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org [Source type: Original source]
    
    ^ Arthur Zilversmit, "Lincoln and the Problem of Race," Papers of the Abraham Lincoln Association , Vol.
    • The Great Emancipator Abraham Lincoln and the Issue of Race 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.ihr.org [Source type: Original source]
    
    ^ Lincoln Collection , vol.
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    .III; No transcripts or reports exist indicating that he ever actually used this expression in any of his speeches.

• We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us.^ For I know better than any how great he ; is.
  • Abraham Lincoln by John Drinkwater - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/2) 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ He didn't he was worse off than a slave.
  • Abraham Lincoln and Indiana - Abraham Lincoln's Classroom 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Confederate forces treated Northern citizens and property considerably better than Union forces treated Southern citizens and property.
  • Reason the Reconstruction ended in 1877 was? - Yahoo! Answers 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC answers.yahoo.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  .How little they know, whereof they speak!^ They know how to do it!
  • Slavery Was Illegal and Unconstitutional 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC medicolegal.tripod.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Now, while I am speaking of Hickman, let me say, I know but little about him.
  • Abraham Lincoln and Ohio - Abraham Lincoln's Classroom 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ "Indeed, you say, 'I pay honestly for my goods; and I am not concerned to know how they are come by.'
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  .There is no permanent class of hired laborers amongst us...Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.^ There is no ; limit to the development and progress of the human mind, and it is not too much ; to hope that eternal right and quite infinite justice shall be the great rule of ; mankind."
  • Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum, Collection - Repository ;Guide 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.lmunet.edu [Source type: Academic]
  
  ^ Nothing shall be left undone that can be done, to restore our whole country to that moral status when human slavery shall no longer be known among us.
  • Abraham Lincoln and Kentucky - Abraham Lincoln's Classroom 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ They say there are but two ways: the one is to hire men, and to allow them to labor by their own consent; the other is to buy the men and drive them to it, and that is slavery.
  • Abraham Lincoln and Indiana - Abraham Lincoln's Classroom 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org [Source type: Original source]
  
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  • Fragmentary manuscript of a speech on free labor (17 September 1859?)

• An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave is not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it.^ The right to slaves, then, "is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution."
  • ;Statesmanship Thesis: An Apple of Gold: Abraham Lincoln and Constitutional Interpretation by Kevin Portteus; 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.ashbrook.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ They conclude that man has a right to keep another man in chains, declaring that the right to own slaves is "distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution."
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  ^ It is a long opinion, but it is all embodied in this short statement: 'The Constitution of the United States forbids Congress to deprive a man of his property, without due process of law; the right of property in slaves is distinctly and expressly affirmed in that Constitution; therefore, if Congress shall undertake to say that a man's slave is no longer his slave, when he crosses a certain line into a territory, that is depriving him of his property without due process of law, and is unconstitutional.'
  • Abraham Lincoln and Ohio - Abraham Lincoln's Classroom 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org [Source type: Original source]
  
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  • Address at Cooper Union (27 February 1860)

• Wrong as we think slavery is, we can yet afford to let it alone where it is, because that much is due to the necessity arising from its actual presence in the nation; but can we, while our votes will prevent it, allow it to spread into the National Territories, and to overrun us here in these Free States?^ As a general rule, I think we would do much better to let it alone.
  • Abraham Lincoln 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.quinnipiac.edu [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ But we cannot be free men if this is, by our national choice, to be a land of slavery.
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  ^ They at the same time got California into the Union as a free State.
  • The Writings of Abraham Lincoln - Volume 2: 1843-1858 / Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  .If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty, fearlessly and effectively.^ But before we exclude our Southern brethren from our pulpits, we might at least wait till they ask us to let them in.
  • Abraham Lincoln Institute for Preservation of the Union™ 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.alexanderhamiltoninstitute.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ "Let us drop our denominational prejudices, "Fight the good fight of faith, and lay hold upon eternal life."
  • Abraham Lincoln Institute for Preservation of the Union™ 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.alexanderhamiltoninstitute.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Let them understand that they will be caught [Lynched] if they come among us, and they will take good heed to keep out of our way.
  • Abraham Lincoln Institute for Preservation of the Union™ 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.alexanderhamiltoninstitute.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  .Let us be diverted by none of those sophistical contrivances wherewith we are so industriously plied and belabored — contrivances such as groping for some middle ground between the right and the wrong, vain as the search for a man who should be neither a living man nor a dead man — such as a policy of "don't care" on a question about which all true men do care — such as Union appeals beseeching true Union men to yield to Disunionists, reversing the divine rule, and calling, not the sinners, but the righteous to repentance — such as invocations to Washington, imploring men to unsay what Washington said, and undo what Washington did.
  • Address at Cooper Union (27 February 1860)

• Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.^ But he's the; only man I should agree with at all.
  • The Project Gutenberg eBook of; ABRAHAM LINCOLN,; by JOHN DRINKWATER.; 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.gutenberg.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ All such are radical and Administration men.
  • Abraham Lincoln and Missouri - Abraham Lincoln's Classroom 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ I have some hope that it will not; but let us not be too confident.
  • The Writings of Abraham Lincoln - Volume 2: 1843-1858 / Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  .Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
  • Address at Cooper Union (27 February 1860)

• And this issue embraces more than the fate of these United States.^ Among other things he noted that; ; This issue embraces more than the fate of the United States.
  • ;Statesmanship Thesis: An Apple of Gold: Abraham Lincoln and Constitutional Interpretation by Kevin Portteus; 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.ashbrook.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
  • Abraham Lincoln Quotes :: Quoteland :: Quotations by Author 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.quoteland.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Abraham Lincoln , Cooper Union Address, New York, New York, February 27, 1860 .
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  .It presents to the whole family of man the question whether a constitutional republic or democracy — a government of the people by the same people — can or cannot maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes.^ It presents to the whole family of man the question, whether a constitutional republic, or democracy—a government of the people by the same people—can or cannot maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes…Is there, in all republics, this inherent and fatal weakness?
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  ^ Now, I cannot question their integrity.
  • Reason the Reconstruction ended in 1877 was? - Yahoo! Answers 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC answers.yahoo.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ If the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the people will have ceased, to be their own rulers, having, to that extent, practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
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  .
  • Address to Congress (4 July 1861)

• They have seen in his round, jolly fruitful face, post-offices, land-offices, marshalships and cabinet-appointments, charge-ships and foreign missions, bursting out in wonderful exuberance, ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands.^ They have seen in his round, jolly, fruitful face, postoffices, landoffices, marshalships, and cabinet appointments, chargeships and foreign missions, bursting and sprouting out in wonderful exuberance ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands.
  • Abraham Lincoln Quotes :: Quoteland :: Quotations by Author 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.quoteland.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ If sufficient, they are sufficient out of Congress as well as in it, and there is the end, We must reject them as insufficient, or lie down and do nothing by any authority.
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  ^ Let Congress hold off until they are ready to be admitted as a State, and the south has all it wants in taking slavery into and planting it in all the territories that w now have, or hereafter may have.
  • Abraham Lincoln and Ohio - Abraham Lincoln's Classroom 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  Nobody has ever expected me to be president. In my poor, lean lank face nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting. .
  • Speech in Springfield, Illinois (17 July 1858), referring to Stephen Douglas.^ (Fourth Lincoln-Douglas Debate: Douglas' Reply, in Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, p.
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    ^ In his debates with Douglas, and his other great political speeches delivered in Illinois, he seldom refers to Deity.
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    ^ Crittenden was a friend of Mary Todd Lincoln, but wrote a letter in 1858 backing Senator Stephen A. Douglas that was critical to his victory over Mr. Lincoln.
    • Abraham Lincoln and Kentucky - Abraham Lincoln's Classroom 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org [Source type: Original source]
    
    .Quoted in Charles Sumner (1861), The Promises of the Declaration of Independence.

• Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.^ Future anti-slavery Senator Charles Sumner in 1845, though still a private citizen, opposed the War already then being planned.
  • Abraham Lincoln Institute for Preservation of the Union™ 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.alexanderhamiltoninstitute.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ To sum up, As men there are great differences between Lincoln and Bush.
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  ^ While there was some difference in the beliefs of these two great men, the truth is that Lincoln was no more an orthodox Christian than was Ingersoll.
  • Abraham Lincoln, Deist, and Admirer of Thomas Paine 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.positiveatheism.org [Source type: Original source]
  
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  • Letter to Thurlow Weed (15 March 1865), reproduced in Lord Charnwood (1916), Abraham Lincoln: A Biography

• This is essentially a people's contest.^ The people elected Lincoln to a second term, which he inaugurated on 4 March 1865.
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  ^ On March 14, 1865, a sick President Lincoln conducted a CABINET MEETING from his BED .
  • The Reincarnation of Abraham Lincoln and John Kennedy 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.near-death.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Abraham Lincoln hosted an entourage of high-ranking South Korean officials (29 March).
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  .On the side of the Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men — to lift artificial weights from their shoulders; to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all; to afford all an unfettered start, and a fair chance in the race of life. Yielding to partial and temporary departures, from necessity, this is the leading object of the government for whose existence we contend.^ The Union was formed for the benefit of all.
  • How Libertarians Ought To Think About The U.S. Civil War 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.freerepublic.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Once relieved, its form of government is saved to the world; its beloved history and cherished memories are vindicated; and its happy future fully assured and rendered inconceivably grand.
  • ABRAHAM LINCOLN: Proclaiming Emancipation by Sanderson Beck 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC san.beck.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ As to Abram, I do not want him, on my own account; but I understand he wants to live with me, so that he can go to school and get a fair start in the world, which I very much wish him to have.
  • The Writings of Abraham Lincoln - Volume 2: 1843-1858 / Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  .
  • Address to Congress (4 July 1861)

• Our popular government has often been called an experiment.^ In his July 4 address to Congress, Lincoln observed that the American "experiment" ; in popular government had passed two of three tests—the successful establishing and the ; successful administering of it.
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  ^ Unlike Lincoln radicals ; in Congress often seem to have forgotten the role of consent in republican government.
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  ^ Lincoln, however, was able to see the implications of the war for the rest of the world, and made it a focus of his justification of the war and his actions to Congress on July 4, 1861.
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  .Two points in it our people have already settled — the successful establishing and the successful administering of it.^ In his July 4 address to Congress, Lincoln observed that the American "experiment" ; in popular government had passed two of three tests—the successful establishing and the ; successful administering of it.
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  .One still remains — its successful maintenance against a formidable internal attempt to overthrow it.^ Could popular government in America ; maintain itself against a "formidable internal attempt to overthrow it"?
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  ^ The testimony of the General Assembly, from the A.D. 1787, to A. D. 1818, inclusive, has condemned it, and it remains still the recorded testimony of the Presbytenan church of these United States against it, from which we do not recede.
  • Abraham Lincoln Institute for Preservation of the Union™ 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.alexanderhamiltoninstitute.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ How can one rightfully attempt to preserve a voluntary Union by waging war to force eleven of its members to remain against their will?
  • Reason the Reconstruction ended in 1877 was? - Yahoo! Answers 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC answers.yahoo.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  .It is now for them to demonstrate to the world that those who can fairly carry an election can also suppress a rebellion; that ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets; and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionally decided, there can be no successful appeal back to bullets...^ It had yet to be ; proved, said Lincoln, that ballots were "the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets" and ; that "when ballots have fairly and constitutionally decided, there can be no successful appeal ; back to bullets."
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  ^ Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.
  • Abraham Lincoln Quotes :: Quoteland :: Quotations by Author 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.quoteland.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ There was no "right" to service by slaves.
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  .Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by election, neither can they take it by war; teaching all the folly of being the beginners of a war.
  • Address to Congress (4 July 1861)

• It was with the deepest regret that the Executive found the duty of employing the war-power, in defence of the government, forced upon him.^ He ruled men when men thought they were ruling him.
  • Six Historic Americans: Abraham Lincoln 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ The government cannot take this right away.
  • ;Statesmanship Thesis: An Apple of Gold: Abraham Lincoln and Constitutional Interpretation by Kevin Portteus; 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.ashbrook.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ If another could take what he earns away, they would own him, for they would have power to extract from him whatever they chose.
  • ;Statesmanship Thesis: An Apple of Gold: Abraham Lincoln and Constitutional Interpretation by Kevin Portteus; 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.ashbrook.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  .He could but perform this duty, or surrender the existence of the government.^ It can only be exercised where there are inhabitants sufficient to constitute a government, and capable of performing its various functions and duties, a fact to be ascertained and determined by– Why do you think?
  • Abraham Lincoln and Ohio - Abraham Lincoln's Classroom 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ But "the very existence of a general and national government ; implies the legal power, right, and duty of maintaining its own integrity."
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  ^ While the spirits realised fully the many heavy cares resting upon the President, there ; was a duty to perform that could not be neglected-a duty that demanded immediate ; attention.
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  .No compromise, by public servants, could, in this case, be a cure; not that compromises are not often proper, but that no popular government can long survive a marked precedent, that those who carry an election, can only save the government from immediate destruction, by giving up the main point, upon which the people gave the election.^ It could have no principle beyond the intention of those who made it.
  • The Writings of Abraham Lincoln - Volume 2: 1843-1858 / Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ It was the only course that could save Mo.
  • Abraham Lincoln and Missouri - Abraham Lincoln's Classroom 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Wilson’s ill-concealed connivance at bringing the USA into the slaughter of World War 1 and his attempt to engage with foreign governments met violent resistance from those who held that we could remain a nation apart.
  • Pajamas Media » Why George W. Bush Reminds Me of Abraham Lincoln 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC pajamasmedia.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
  
  .The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.^ People own themselves.
  • Slavery Was Illegal and Unconstitutional 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC medicolegal.tripod.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ That perfect liberty they sigh for--the liberty of making slaves of other people, Jefferson never thought of, their own fathers never thought of, they never thought of themselves, a year ago.
  • The Writings of Abraham Lincoln - Volume 2: 1843-1858 / Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Rational people, having formed views rationally, make rational decisions regarding themselves and the future of the nation.
  • ;Statesmanship Thesis: An Apple of Gold: Abraham Lincoln and Constitutional Interpretation by Kevin Portteus; 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.ashbrook.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  .As a private citizen, the Executive could not have consented that these institutions shall perish; much less could he, in betrayal of so vast, and so sacred a trust, as these free people had confided to him.^ Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
  • Abraham Lincoln Quotes :: Quoteland :: Quotations by Author 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.quoteland.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ I valued him none the less for his agreeing with me in the general wish that all men everywhere could be free.
  • ABRAHAM LINCOLN: Proclaiming Emancipation by Sanderson Beck 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC san.beck.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ These devilish designs, I trust, will all be frustrated by the appointment of Schofield, and the expected harmony between him and Gamble.
  • Abraham Lincoln and Missouri - Abraham Lincoln's Classroom 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  .He felt that he had no moral right to shrink; nor even to count the chances of his own life, in what might follow.^ Lincoln later said: "I never, in my life, felt more certain that I was doing right, than I do in signing this paper."
  • Who was ABRAHAM LINCOLN? - Yahoo! Answers 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC answers.yahoo.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ I try to live a moral and a manly life, love my fellow man, love freedom, love justice, and would die for the eternal right."
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  ^ LINCOLN I never in my life felt more certain that I was doing right than I do in signing this paper.
  • ABRAHAM LINCOLN: Proclaiming Emancipation by Sanderson Beck 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC san.beck.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  .In full view of his great responsibility, he has, so far, done what he has deemed his duty.^ Toward the close of the conference he went on to speak of his great office, of its burdens, of its responsibilities and duties.
  • Abraham Lincoln and Missouri - Abraham Lincoln's Classroom 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  .You will now, according to your own judgment, perform yours.^ Libertyship46 Hey David S., I love how Bush haters like you love to distort history to suit your own warped views.
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  ^ Do think these things over, and then act according to your judgment.
  • The Writings of Abraham Lincoln - Volume 2: 1843-1858 / Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ MARY I do not believe in dreams, but I wish to know what it is you have seen in your sleep that now has such a hold on you.
  • ABRAHAM LINCOLN: Victory and Death by Sanderson Beck 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC san.beck.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  .He sincerely hopes that your views, and your action, may so accord with his, as to assure all faithful citizens, who have been disturbed in their rights, of a certain, and speedy restoration to them, under the Constitution, and the laws.^ If not, then the right is not protected under the Constitution.
  • ;Statesmanship Thesis: An Apple of Gold: Abraham Lincoln and Constitutional Interpretation by Kevin Portteus; 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.ashbrook.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Even the most fervent abolitionists, such as William Lloyd Garrison, who denounced the Constitution as "a covenant with the devil," could rally around the idea that the Creator had granted to all men equality and natural rights.
  • ;Statesmanship Thesis: An Apple of Gold: Abraham Lincoln and Constitutional Interpretation by Kevin Portteus; 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.ashbrook.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ The constitution and by-laws for the society known as “Equal Rights League” states, in part, “Whereas God is no respector of the persons of men, having made of one blood all nations, making no distinctions among them except on account of character, having created all men Free and Equal and endowed them with certain inalienable rights ….” .
  • Collections held in the Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum | Carnegie-Vincent Library - We're here to help you – Information Literacy – Databases – Subject Guides 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC library.lmunet.edu [Source type: Academic]
  
  .And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts.^ Having thus chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts.
  • Abraham Lincoln Quotes :: Quoteland :: Quotations by Author 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.quoteland.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work ;we are in.
  • Abraham Lincoln Quotes :: Quoteland :: Quotations by Author 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.quoteland.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God’s assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men’s faces; but let us judge not, that we be not judged.
  • ABRAHAM LINCOLN: Victory and Death by Sanderson Beck 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC san.beck.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  .
  • Address to Congress (4 July 1861)

• I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game.^ As he continued in his letter to Orville Browning, "I ; think to lose Kentucky is nearly to the same as to lose the whole game.
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  ^ I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game,’ he wrote a friend in September 1861.” Elected officials in states north of the Ohio River were worried.
  • Abraham Lincoln and Kentucky - Abraham Lincoln's Classroom 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ However clear Congress may be on their authority to pass any particular act, the gentleman from Kentucky thinks the President must veto it if he has doubts about it.
  • The Writings of Abraham Lincoln - Volume 2: 1843-1858 / Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  .Kentucky gone, we can not hold Missouri, nor, as I think, Maryland.^ The upper South (Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, and Arkansas) listened to and rejected the secessionist appeal.
  • Who was ABRAHAM LINCOLN? - Yahoo! Answers 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC answers.yahoo.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ The slave states of Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware did not secede, and Lincoln urgently negotiated with state leaders there, promising not to interfere with slavery in loyal states.
  • Who was ABRAHAM LINCOLN? - Yahoo! Answers 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC answers.yahoo.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ I would do it if I were not afraid that half the officers would fling down their arms, and I fear the rebellion would spread to Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri.
  • ABRAHAM LINCOLN: Proclaiming Emancipation by Sanderson Beck 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC san.beck.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  .
  • Letter to Orville Hickman Browning (22 September 1861)

• It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to mean no more than that an army is better directed by a single mind, though inferior, than by two superior ones at variance and cross-purposes with each other.
  • State of the Union Address (3 December 1861)

• Labor is prior to and independent of capital.^ To Orville Browning, September 22, 1861, CWL , vol.
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  ^ It had no more direct reference to Nebraska than it had to the territories of the moon.
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  ^ But is this any more true in Congress than in a State Legislature?
  • The Writings of Abraham Lincoln - Volume 2: 1843-1858 / Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  .Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed.^ Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed.
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  ^ There was a certain relation between capital and labor, and it was proper that it existed.
  • Abraham Lincoln and Indiana - Abraham Lincoln's Classroom 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ He said when he lost his first wife, who had been a great help to him in his business, he thought he was ruinedthat he could never find another to fill her place.
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  .Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.^ Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
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  .Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights.^ He urged, on the other hand, the absolute, irresistible necessity of having a transmit through the State for such troops as might be necessary for the protection of the Federal Capital.
  • Abraham Lincoln and Maryland - Abraham Lincoln's Classroom 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  .Nor is it denied that there is, and probably always will be, a relation between labor and capital producing mutual benefits.
  • First State of the Union Address (3 December 1861)

• The severest justice may not always be the best policy.^ There was a certain relation between capital and labor, and it was proper that it existed.
  • Abraham Lincoln and Indiana - Abraham Lincoln's Classroom 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ We all agree that the seceded states are out of their proper practical relation with the Union; and that the sole object of the Government in regard to those states is to again get them into that proper practical relation.
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  ^ Civil War ; ; Secession winter 1860–1861 ; As Lincoln's election became more probable, secessionists made it clear that their states would leave the Union.
  • Who was ABRAHAM LINCOLN? - Yahoo! Answers 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC answers.yahoo.com [Source type: Original source]
  
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  • Veto message, eventually not executed, written as a response to the Second Confiscation Act passed by Congress.^ Emancipation Proclamation ; Main articles: Abraham Lincoln on slavery and Emancipation Proclamation ; Congress in July 1862 moved to free the slaves by passing the Second Confiscation Act.
    • Who was ABRAHAM LINCOLN? - Yahoo! Answers 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC answers.yahoo.com [Source type: Original source]
    
    ^ The edict then cited the law passed by Congress on March 13, 1862, which prohibited military personnel from returning escaped slaves, and the second Confiscation Act of July 1862.
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    ^ An irate Congress responded by passing, in July, a second Confiscation Act that declared "forever free" all slaves whose owners were in rebellion, whether or not the slaves were used for military purposes.
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    .(17 July 1862)
  • The Emancipation Proclamation, by John Hope Franklin, Doubleday Anchor Books, New York, NY, 1963, page 19

• I am a patient man — always willing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance; and also to give ample time for repentance.^ John Hope Franklin, From Slavery to Freedom (New York: 1964 [2nd ed.
  • The Great Emancipator Abraham Lincoln and the Issue of Race 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.ihr.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ The complete text of the final Emancipation Proclamation is printed in: Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years , (New York: 1954 [One-volume edition]), pp.
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  ^ Emancipation Proclamation ; Main articles: Abraham Lincoln on slavery and Emancipation Proclamation ; Congress in July 1862 moved to free the slaves by passing the Second Confiscation Act.
  • Who was ABRAHAM LINCOLN? - Yahoo! Answers 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC answers.yahoo.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  Still I must save this government if possible. .
  • Letter to Reverdy Johnson (26 July 1862)

• You and I are different races.^ You and we are different races.
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  ^ Letter from Abraham Lincoln to Reverdy Johnson, April 24, 1861,  CWAL, Volume IV, p.
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  ^ Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress (Letter from Reverdy Johnson to Abraham Lincoln, April 22, 1861).,  Transcribed and Annotated by the Lincoln Studies Center, Knox College.
  • Abraham Lincoln and Maryland - Abraham Lincoln's Classroom 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  .We have between us a broader difference than exists between almost any other races.^ The difference between us is clear as noonday.
  • The Writings of Abraham Lincoln - Volume 2: 1843-1858 / Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ We have between us a broader difference ; than exists between almost any other two races.
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  ^ We have between us a broader difference than exists between almost any other two races.
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  .Whether it be right or wrong, I need not discuss; but this physical difference is a great disadvantage to us both, as I think.^ Whether it is right or wrong I need not discuss, but this physical difference is a great disadvantage to us both, as I think your race suffers very greatly, many of them, by living among us, while ours suffers from your presence.
  • The Great Emancipator Abraham Lincoln and the Issue of Race 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.ihr.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Whether it is right or ; wrong I need not discuss."
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  ^ But then the almost universal testimony is (whether right or wrong), that the world is getting worse and worse.
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  .Your race suffer very greatly, many of them by living amongst us, while ours suffer from your presence.^ Your race suffers very greatly, many of them, by living among us, while ours suffers from your presence.
  • ABRAHAM LINCOLN: Proclaiming Emancipation by Sanderson Beck 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC san.beck.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ It was after eleven o' clock when our carriage was announced, and as we departed the ; General stood by the side of Mrs. Lincoln, shaking hands with us in turn as we passed ; from their presence.
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  ^ We, therefore are very glad of your letter, with the information it brings us, mixed only with a regret that we can not elect Logan and Walker both.
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  In a word, we suffer on each side. .If this is admitted, it affords a reason at least why we should be separated.^ If this is admitted, it affords a reason why we should be separated.
  • ABRAHAM LINCOLN: Proclaiming Emancipation by Sanderson Beck 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC san.beck.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ I mention the Coles and Edgar courts in order that if I should not reach Jacksonville at the time named you may understand the reason why.
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  ^ You can do so, as easily as to let it alone; and as they have stood by you, even while they felt that you had treated them unkindly, why should you not stand by them, at least for a while, and see how it will work?
  • Abraham Lincoln and Missouri - Abraham Lincoln's Classroom 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org [Source type: Original source]
  
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  • Statement to the Deputation of Free Negroes, 14 August 1862
  • The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, edited by Roy P. Baler, Rutgers University Press, 1953, Vol.^ Roy P. Basler, editor,  Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln,  (Telegram from John Schofield to Abraham Lincoln, May 27, 1863), Volume VI, p.
    • Abraham Lincoln and Missouri - Abraham Lincoln's Classroom 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org [Source type: Original source]
    
    ^ Arthur Zilversmit, "Lincoln and the Problem of Race," Papers of the Abraham Lincoln Association , Vol.
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    ^ Emancipation Proclamation ; Main articles: Abraham Lincoln on slavery and Emancipation Proclamation ; Congress in July 1862 moved to free the slaves by passing the Second Confiscation Act.
    • Who was ABRAHAM LINCOLN? - Yahoo! Answers 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC answers.yahoo.com [Source type: Original source]
    
    .V, page 371

• My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery.^ He noted to Horace Greeley in August 1862 that "my paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery.
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  ^ My paramount object in this struggle is to; save the Union."
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  ^ My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery.
  • Who was ABRAHAM LINCOLN? - Yahoo! Answers 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC answers.yahoo.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  .If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.^ If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.
  • Who was ABRAHAM LINCOLN? - Yahoo! Answers 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC answers.yahoo.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ You; remember his words: "If I could save the Union without freeing any; slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves,; I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others; alone, I would also do that.
  • The Project Gutenberg eBook of; ABRAHAM LINCOLN,; by JOHN DRINKWATER.; 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.gutenberg.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
  • The Great Emancipator Abraham Lincoln and the Issue of Race 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.ihr.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  .I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.^ This admitted, it is scarcely possible to believe that they do not help the cause they thus love whenever they conveniently can.
  • Abraham Lincoln and Kentucky - Abraham Lincoln's Classroom 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  .I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.
  • Letter to Horace Greeley (22 August 1862)

• May our children and our children's children to a thousand generations, continue to enjoy the benefits conferred upon us by a united country, and have cause yet to rejoice under those glorious institutions bequeathed us by Washington and his compeers.^ If one half of this country claims ; the right to disown the Union, the claim in the eyes of every true ; guardian among us must be a cause for war, unless we hold the Union to ; be a false thing instead of the public consent to decent principles ; of life that it is.
  • Abraham Lincoln by John Drinkwater - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/2) 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Memorial Day address to the Grand Army of the Republic on May 30, 1884: " It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return."
  • The Reincarnation of Abraham Lincoln and John Kennedy 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.near-death.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God.
  • Abraham Lincoln and Kentucky - Abraham Lincoln's Classroom 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org [Source type: Original source]
  
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  • Second Speech at Frederick, Maryland (4 October 1862)

• In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free —honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.^ In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free— honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.
  • ABRAHAM LINCOLN: Proclaiming Emancipation by Sanderson Beck 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC san.beck.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ In giving; freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free.
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  ^ In giving freedom to the ; slave, we assure freedom to the free….
  • FOREIGN POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.fpri.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  .We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best, hope of earth.^ Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.
  • Abraham Lincoln Quotes :: Quoteland :: Quotations by Author 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.quoteland.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth.
  • ABRAHAM LINCOLN: Proclaiming Emancipation by Sanderson Beck 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC san.beck.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best, hope of earth.
  • Abraham Lincoln Quotes :: Quoteland :: Quotations by Author 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.quoteland.com [Source type: Original source]
  
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  • Annual Message to Congress (1 December 1862)

• The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present.^ LINCOLN “… The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.
  • ABRAHAM LINCOLN: Proclaiming Emancipation by Sanderson Beck 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC san.beck.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ The ; dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present….
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  ^ He did so for reasons that he made clear in his annual message ; to Congress for 1862.
  • FOREIGN POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.fpri.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  .The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion.^ The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion.
  • Abraham Lincoln Quotes :: Quoteland :: Quotations by Author 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.quoteland.com [Source type: Original source]
  • ABRAHAM LINCOLN: Proclaiming Emancipation by Sanderson Beck 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC san.beck.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  .As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew.^ As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
  • Abraham Lincoln Quotes :: Quoteland :: Quotations by Author 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.quoteland.com [Source type: Original source]
  • ABRAHAM LINCOLN: Proclaiming Emancipation by Sanderson Beck 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC san.beck.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
  • Abraham Lincoln Quotes :: Quoteland :: Quotations by Author 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.quoteland.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ He must not think to divert us from our purpose by showing us that our drill, our dress, and our weapons are not entirely perfect and uniform.
  • The Writings of Abraham Lincoln - Volume 2: 1843-1858 / Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  .We must disenthrall our selves, and then we shall save our country.^ We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
  • Abraham Lincoln Quotes :: Quoteland :: Quotations by Author 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.quoteland.com [Source type: Original source]
  • ABRAHAM LINCOLN: Proclaiming Emancipation by Sanderson Beck 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC san.beck.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save ; our country."
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  ^ Enforce the laws and save our country!
  • Abraham Lincoln and Ohio - Abraham Lincoln's Classroom 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  .Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history.^ Lincoln : Gentlemen, we cannot escape history.
  • The Project Gutenberg eBook of; ABRAHAM LINCOLN,; by JOHN DRINKWATER.; 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.gutenberg.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ "Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history….
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  ^ Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.
  • Abraham Lincoln Quotes :: Quoteland :: Quotations by Author 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.quoteland.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  .We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves.^ We of this; administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves.
  • The Project Gutenberg eBook of; ABRAHAM LINCOLN,; by JOHN DRINKWATER.; 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.gutenberg.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  .No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us.^ A person can utter one falsehood with some degree of plausibility; but when he attempts to verify it by uttering another, he usually trips and falls.
  • Six Historic Americans: Abraham Lincoln 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Amid the thousands around them one case was ; of no more interest than another.
  • Was Abraham Lincoln a Spiritualist? 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.snu.org.uk [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ He had personally observed a number of significant scenes, such as slaves leaving the field by one or two o'clock, the remainder of the day to be theirs to use as they willed.
  • Reason the Reconstruction ended in 1877 was? - Yahoo! Answers 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC answers.yahoo.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  .The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.^ The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.
  • ABRAHAM LINCOLN: Proclaiming Emancipation by Sanderson Beck 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC san.beck.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ The fiery trial through ; which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation….
  • FOREIGN POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.fpri.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ It was after eleven o' clock when our carriage was announced, and as we departed the ; General stood by the side of Mrs. Lincoln, shaking hands with us in turn as we passed ; from their presence.
  • Was Abraham Lincoln a Spiritualist? 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.snu.org.uk [Source type: Original source]
  
  
  • Annual Message to Congress (1 December 1862)

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All persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free...

• Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit: That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom. That the Executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof, respectively, shall then be in rebellion against the United States; and the fact that any State, or the people thereof, shall on that day be, in good faith, represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such State shall have participated, shall, in the absence of strong countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence that such State, and the people thereof, are not then in rebellion against the United States.^ Without them it is impossible to maintain a free government.
  • ;Statesmanship Thesis: An Apple of Gold: Abraham Lincoln and Constitutional Interpretation by Kevin Portteus; 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.ashbrook.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ "No such thing.
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  ^ Among other things he noted that; ; This issue embraces more than the fate of the United States.
  • ;Statesmanship Thesis: An Apple of Gold: Abraham Lincoln and Constitutional Interpretation by Kevin Portteus; 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.ashbrook.org [Source type: Original source]
  
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  • Emancipation Proclamation (1 January 1863)

• And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.^ He proclaimed all men free within certain states, and I repudiated the proclamation.
  • ABRAHAM LINCOLN: Proclaiming Emancipation by Sanderson Beck 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC san.beck.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Executive Order - Taking into Military Possession all Telegraph Lines in the United States .
  • Abraham Lincoln 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.presidency.ucsb.edu [Source type: General]
  
  ^ And of course, all slaves were to be emancipated.
  • FOREIGN POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.fpri.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  .And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defence; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages.^ Or, consider how many low-income people in our country have died prematurely because they had substandard health care or no health care at all.
  • Reason the Reconstruction ended in 1877 was? - Yahoo! Answers 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC answers.yahoo.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ But, a little patient firmness, prudence, and steady conduct, with the People at home, and active, aggressive war upon the armed enemy, will make all right.
  • Abraham Lincoln and Missouri - Abraham Lincoln's Classroom 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Can any man doubt that, even in spite of the people's will, slavery will triumph through violence, unless that will be made manifest and enforced?
  • The Writings of Abraham Lincoln - Volume 2: 1843-1858 / Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  .And I further declare and make known, that such persons of suitable condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.^ The constitution and by-laws for the society known as “Equal Rights League” states, in part, “Whereas God is no respector of the persons of men, having made of one blood all nations, making no distinctions among them except on account of character, having created all men Free and Equal and endowed them with certain inalienable rights ….” .
  • Collections held in the Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum | Carnegie-Vincent Library - We're here to help you – Information Literacy – Databases – Subject Guides 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC library.lmunet.edu [Source type: Academic]
  
  ^ He won this case, and the decision by the Illinois Supreme Court was eventually cited by several other courts throughout the United States.
  • Who was ABRAHAM LINCOLN? - Yahoo! Answers 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC answers.yahoo.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Abraham Lincoln supported rescuers as they responded to the tragedy, for which the ship uniquely later received the Coast Guard Unit Commendation with Operational Distinguishing Service.
  • Abraham Lincoln 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.history.navy.mil [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
  
  .And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.^ Chase promised to do so, and at the next meeting presented the following: 'And upon this Act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God'" (Reminiscences of Lincoln, pp.
  • Six Historic Americans: Abraham Lincoln 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ When he wrote his immortal Proclamation, he revoked upon it not only 'the considerate judgment of mankind,' but the 'gracious favor of Almighty God.'
  • Abraham Lincoln, Deist, and Admirer of Thomas Paine 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.positiveatheism.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ In the Emancipation Proclamation appears the following paragraph, which contains the only allusion to Deity to be found in this immortal document: "And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God."
  • Six Historic Americans: Abraham Lincoln 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
  
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  • Emancipation Proclamation (1 January 1863)

• Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.^ Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories.
  • Abraham Lincoln Quotes :: Quoteland :: Quotations by Author 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.quoteland.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go ; forward, and give us victories.
  • FOREIGN POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.fpri.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ In January, 1863, he gives a ball himself.
  • Six Historic Americans: Abraham Lincoln 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
  
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  • Letter to Major General Joseph Hooker (26 January 1863)

• We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven.^ We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven.
  • Abraham Lincoln Quotes :: Quoteland :: Quotations by Author 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.quoteland.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Joseph Hooker when ; he appointed him commanding general of the Army of the Potomac in early 1863.
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  ^ Graphics: ; Letter from Abraham Lincoln to General Daniel Butterfield regarding the location ; of Union troops, May 3, 1863.
  • Abraham Lincoln: A Man of His Time, A Man for All Times 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.gilderlehrman.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
  
  .We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity.^ We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity.
  • Abraham Lincoln Quotes :: Quoteland :: Quotations by Author 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.quoteland.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ What will be the excuse when thing get truly screwed up in the next four years (versus the fanciful, imaginary screwing up that many imagine Bush has done -while we have been prosperous and safe these past 8 yrs after 9/11).
  • Pajamas Media » Why George W. Bush Reminds Me of Abraham Lincoln 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC pajamasmedia.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
  
  ^ It would be worth to the nation a hundred years purchase of peace and prosperity.
  • The Writings of Abraham Lincoln - Volume 2: 1843-1858 / Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  .We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown.^ We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown.
  • Abraham Lincoln Quotes :: Quoteland :: Quotations by Author 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.quoteland.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ On at least three important occasions he has quelled our civil commotions by a power and influence which belonged to no other statesman of his age and times.
  • The Writings of Abraham Lincoln - Volume 2: 1843-1858 / Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Packed to nearly overflowing with funny, interesting, unusual information about our nation's leaders from George W. to George Dubya and is a history lesson like no other.
  • The Reincarnation of Abraham Lincoln and John Kennedy 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.near-death.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  But we have forgotten God. .We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.^ We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.
  • Abraham Lincoln Quotes :: Quoteland :: Quotations by Author 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.quoteland.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ It was after eleven o' clock when our carriage was announced, and as we departed the ; General stood by the side of Mrs. Lincoln, shaking hands with us in turn as we passed ; from their presence.
  • Was Abraham Lincoln a Spiritualist? 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.snu.org.uk [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ When it came upon us, all was peace and quiet.
  • The Writings of Abraham Lincoln - Volume 2: 1843-1858 / Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  .Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!^ "But if by prayer God were to melt down tbeir pride [their Mexican self-defense against U.S. aggression], and kindly dispose them to us, how great the good accomplished!
  • Abraham Lincoln Institute for Preservation of the Union™ 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.alexanderhamiltoninstitute.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
  • ABRAHAM LINCOLN: Proclaiming Emancipation by Sanderson Beck 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC san.beck.org [Source type: Original source]
  
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  • Upon proclaiming a National Fast Day (30 March 1863)

• The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one.^ The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one.
  • Abraham Lincoln Quotes :: Quoteland :: Quotations by Author 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.quoteland.com [Source type: Original source]
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  ^ As to Abram, I do not want him, on my own account; but I understand he wants to live with me, so that he can go to school and get a fair start in the world, which I very much wish him to have.
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  ^ There's a good many people call him Father Abraham; now.
  • The Project Gutenberg eBook of; ABRAHAM LINCOLN,; by JOHN DRINKWATER.; 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.gutenberg.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  .We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.^ We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing .
  • Abraham Lincoln and Maryland - Abraham Lincoln's Classroom 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.
  • Abraham Lincoln Quotes :: Quoteland :: Quotations by Author 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.quoteland.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ The promise of the Declaration was the promise of "Liberty to all."
  • ;Statesmanship Thesis: An Apple of Gold: Abraham Lincoln and Constitutional Interpretation by Kevin Portteus; 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.ashbrook.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  .With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others, the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men's labor.^ With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other mens labor.
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  ^ We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.
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  ^ With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men's labor.
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  .Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name — liberty.^ And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two difference and incompatible names– liberty and tyranny.
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  ^ Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name– liberty.
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  ^ This was the real thing he aimed to preserve, because only republican ; government was capable of protecting the liberty of the people.
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  .And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names — liberty and tyranny.^ And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two difference and incompatible names– liberty and tyranny.
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  ^ Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name– liberty.
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  ^ The other two are written by a different person, at St. Joseph, Mo., and of the dates, respectively, October 12th and 13th.
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  • Address in Baltimore, Maryland (18 April 1864)

• That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.^ The Union was beginning to show some muscle in Maryland.” 24 “The reign of terror continued until April 24th,” wrote historian Allan Nevins.
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  ^ Hereafter if any nice young man should owe a bill which he cannot pay in any other way, he can just board it out.
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  ^ With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men's labor.
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  .Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.^ Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
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  ^ Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
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  ^ Gaines] told him he himself was one.
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  • Reply to New York Workingmen's Democratic Republican Association (21 March 1864)

• I do not allow myself to suppose that either the Convention or the League have concluded to decide that I am either the greatest or the best man in America; but, rather, they have concluded that it is not best to swap horses while crossing the river.^ The New York City Superintendent of Police, JOHN A. KENNEDY , believed the plot to be a hoax; but on November 25, 1864, the firebombing began.
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  ^ Lincoln was the obvious choice, but to keep the new party balanced he allowed the election to go to an ex-Democrat Lyman Trumbull.
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  ^ While in New York in late March, Nicolay met with German-American Republican leader Carl Schurz.
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  • Interview with a delegation of the National Republican League during the Republican Convention (9 June 1864).^ Dennison presided at the Republican National Convention in Baltimore at the beginning of June.
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    ^ The Republican National Convention had been held in Baltimore in early June 1864.
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    ^ It was merely an informal mass convention; but many of ; the delegates were men of national character, each of whose names was ; itself a sufficient credential.
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    .Reproduced in Joseph Hartwell Barrett (1865) Life of Abraham Lincoln

• I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.^ About few other men has so much been written as about Abraham Lincoln; while no other American's life has engaged the pens of so many biographers.
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  ^ Consists of various published reminiscences, remembrances, and poetry about ; Abraham Lincoln, biographic articles detailing his life, and some published ; facsimiles of his correspondence.
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  ^ A new traveling exhibition at the (NAME OF LIBRARY) focuses on the ; life, accomplishments, and legacy of Abraham Lincoln, one of the most ; revered figures in American history.
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  • Quoted in The Lexington Observer & Reporter (16 June 1864)

• Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.^ On orders from General McClellan, General Dix moved against the legislature, September 18, with the object of arresting every member favoring the report.
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  ^ The final Union commander for Missouri was General Grenville Dodge, who had been seriously wounded in General William T. Sherman campaign’s against Atlanta in August 1864.
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  • Letter to Edwin Stanton (14 July 1864).^ Galesburg, Illinois,  Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress(Letter from Thomas Bramlette to Abraham Lincoln, November 14, 1864), ; ; Louis A. Warren,  The Slavery Atmosphere of Lincoln’s Youth,  p.
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    ^ Galesburg, Illinois,  (Letter from Norman B. Judd to Abraham Lincoln, January 4, 1864), ; ; Roy P. Basler, editor,  Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Volume, VII,  (Letter from Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton, December 18, 1863), pp.
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    ^ Roy P. Basler, editor,  Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln,  (Letter from Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton, May 11,1863), Volume VI, p.
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    .See John Hay (1890), Abraham Lincoln: A History

• In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.^ He said: 'In regard to the Great Book I have only to say that it is the best gift which God has given to man.
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  ^ Lincoln was a great and good man.
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  ^ "Abraham Lincoln was a good man.
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  .All the good the Saviour gave to the world was communicated through this book.^ All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated through this book'" (Ibid., p.
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  ^ This supposed speech contains the following: 'All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through this book.'
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  ^ In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.” All the good the Saviour gave to the world was communicated through this book.
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  • Words on being presented with a Bible, reported in the Washington Daily Morning Chronicle (8 September 1864)

• Dear Madam, I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts, that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle.^ Report at Washington as soon as you can.
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  ^ We are met ; on a great battle-field of that war.
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  ^ Halleck was a true military intellectual who was commander of the Department of ; Missouri when Lincoln tapped him for general-in-chief.
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  .I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.^ I must take you at your word.
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  ^ I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
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  ^ Kemble ponders why actors should "attempt to cut each others throats, ; merely for sectional feeling of prejudice."
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  .But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.^ But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.
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  ^ You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God!
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  ^ They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do; practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks.
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  .I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.^ I have been told that you have lost loved ones in your family.
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  ^ But if there must be a departure from it, I shall insist upon a more accurate and just apportionment of delegates, or representative votes, to the constituent body, than exists by the old, and which you propose to retain in your new plan.
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  ^ LINCOLN You may go to your Department.
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  Yours, very sincerely and respectfully, Abraham Lincoln
  • Letter to Mrs. Bixby in Boston (21 November 1864). .Some scholars suggest that John Hay, a secretary of President Lincoln's, actually wrote this letter.^ Lincoln shares news with his assistant secretary JOHN HAY. .
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    ^ Contains some of Lincoln's addresses and letters.
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    ^ Lincoln scholars Harry V. Jaffa and Robert W. Johannsen wrote: “The announcement that Douglas would speak in Ohio took the state Republican organization by surprise.
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    The Files of the war department were inaccurate Mrs. Bixby lost two sons.

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If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others...

• I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others.^ That is what all those who are for slavery want.
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  ^ Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.
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  ^ I wish all men to be free.
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  .When I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
  • Statement to an Indiana Regiment passing through Washington (17 March 1865); The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln Volume VIII

• I propose now closing up by requesting you play a certain piece of music or a tune.^ The Writings of Abraham Lincoln - Volume 2: 1843-1858 / Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln - Volume 2: 1843-1858 / Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 .
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  ^ AN INTERESTING NOTE: Lincoln is quoted as saying, "Whenever I hear anyone arguing for SLAVERY , I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."
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  ^ Lincoln : Can I go and see him?
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  I thought "Dixie" one of the best tunes I ever heard... I had heard our adversaries over the way had attempted to appropriate it. I insisted yesterday that we had fairly captured it... .I presented the question to the Attorney-General, and he gave his opinion that it is our lawful prize...^ Can they tell us General Cass's opinion on this question?
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  ^ Can the party opinion of a party President on a law question, as this purely is, be at all compared or set in opposition to that of such a man, in such an attitude, as Chancellor Kent?
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  ^ After our reception and a short interview on general matters, Governor Tod asked the following question: "Mr.
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  .I ask the Band to give us a good turn upon it.^ "Let us drop our denominational prejudices, "Fight the good fight of faith, and lay hold upon eternal life."
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  ^ Betts attempted to ; ask some particulars, when DeKalb spoke to him in a most ungracious way, and he ; turned and left us alone in the office.
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  ^ William J. Cooper gives us additional information about Davis's relations with blacks: Without question he respected individual blacks and in turn received their respect.
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  • At the end of the Civil War, asking that a military band play “Dixie" (10 April 1865) as quoted in Dan Emmett and the Rise of Early Negro Minstrelsy (1962) by Hans Nathan.^ At the outset of the Civil War, William was superintendent of a Louisiana military college.
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    ^ In the early stages of the war Lincoln revoked orders by John C. Frémont and David Hunter freeing the slaves in their military departments.
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    ^ On April 9, 1865, General Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House in Virginia; the war was effectively over.
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    .Variant account: "I have always thought "Dixie" one of the best tunes I have ever heard.^ Ma'am, I have but one; thought always—how can this thing be stopped?
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    ^ But he has always kept his policy about slavery free in his mind,; to be directed as he thought best for the sake of the Union.
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    ^ Ma'am, I have but one ; thought always--how can this thing be stopped?
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    Our adversaries over the way attempted to appropriate it, but I insisted yesterday that we fairly captured it... .I now request the band to favor me with its performance."

• Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks.^ Tell me what brand of whiskey that Grant drinks.
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  ^ Cuffney: We wish you well, Abraham.
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  ^ Cuffney:_ We wish you well, Abraham.
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  .I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.^ I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.
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  ^ I'll send some barrels to; the others.
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  ^ If General McClellan does not want to use the army, I would like to borrow it, provided I can see how it could be made to do something.
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  • Quoted in a contemporary issue of the New York Herald, in response to allegations his most successful general drank too much.

• Did Stanton say I was a damned fool?^ He did not say much about heaven.
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  ^ The committee did little good and much harm to the Union ; cause, not the least by demoralizing the Union's top generals.
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  ^ "I have now met all the able debaters and lecturers in New England and New York, except one Gerritt Smith, of whom I have heard much.
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  .Then I dare say I must be one, for Stanton is generally right and he always says what he means.^ After a moment's pause, and looking up, the President said: 'If Stanton said I was a d---d fool, then I must be one, for he is nearly always right, and generally says what he means'" (Every-Day Life of Lincoln, pp.
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  ^ KELLEY Mr. President, I suggest that you try one general after another until you find the right man; but the first change should be made soon.
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  ^ But it must be endured.; The cause was a right one two years ago.
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  • As quoted in Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War (1922) by Nathaniel Wright Stephenson

• I do not like that man.^ As a first course of action, the War Department determined that the annual spring flooding of the plaza and ; spring needed immediate attention.
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  ^ As it is not claimed that Lincoln was an Atheist, especially during the last years of his life, the above can very properly be brought forward in support of the negative of this question.
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  ^ Reporter Gilmore first interviewed Lincoln the day after the Civil War started in 1861 and over the course of the war, came to know the president personally.
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  .I must get to know him better.
  • As quoted in Costs of Administering Reparation for Work Injuries in Illinois (1952) by Alfred Fletcher Conard, p.^ I'm going to have to get to know him better.
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    ^ And now, to quote you, 'Do you not think it were better for the truth of history that you should state the facts about Lincoln, and that you should commend him for what he was rather than for what he was not?'
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    ^ To know the position of Lincoln toward the Churches while he was President, we must first appreciate the gigantic task he had before him.
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• It never occurs to some politicians that Lincoln is worth imitating as well as quoting.^ "The best evidence this side of Lincoln's own written statement that he was an infidel, if not, an Atheist, as claimed by some, is the fact that he never mentions the name of Jesus.
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  ^ Evidently, when Arnold omitted quoting this line, he had some regard for Lincoln's intellectual reputation.
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  ^ Squire Ross, another old resident of Virden, Ill., a lawyer, and a writer of some repute, says: "I was acquainted with Lincoln, but never talked with him on religion.
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  • Author unknown, quoted in 20,000 Quips & Quotes (1996) by Evan Esar

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If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher.^ We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.

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^ We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save ; our country."

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As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

The Lyceum Address (1838)

The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions : Lincoln's address to the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois (27 January 1838)

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• In the great journal of things happening under the sun, we, the American People, find our account running, under date of the nineteenth century of the Christian era.^ The simple fact is that criminals using Islam as an excuse to attack Americans wherever they can find them have been around since about the founding of our country.
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  ^ During the nineteenth century, American public ; memorials, especially memorials with patriotic ; themes, were thought to improve "national morality" ; and the "national principles" themselves.
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  ^ He was one of the many people who had declined the President’s invitation to attend the play “Our American Cousin” that tragic evening.
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  — We find ourselves in the peaceful possession, of the fairest portion of the earth, as regards extent of territory, fertility of soil, and salubrity of climate. .We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.^ It was made necessary, in order to preserve domestic institutions, placed under the guaranty of their respective constitutions, and deemed essential to their safety and prosperity."
  • Abraham Lincoln Institute for Preservation of the Union™ 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.alexanderhamiltoninstitute.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ At many times between 1830 and 1860 more slaves were married in the Episcopal churches in some states than were whites.
  • Reason the Reconstruction ended in 1877 was? - Yahoo! Answers 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC answers.yahoo.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ And it is more than time the worid was awakened to its unhallowed influence on the hopes and happiness of mankind, while it makes itself the palladium of the foulest iniquity ever perpetrated in the sight of heaven.
  • Abraham Lincoln Institute for Preservation of the Union™ 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.alexanderhamiltoninstitute.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  .We, when mounting the stage of existence, found ourselves the legal inheritors of these fundamental blessings.

• At what point shall we expect the approach of danger?^ At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected?
  • Abraham Lincoln Quotes :: Quoteland :: Quotations by Author 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.quoteland.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ The picture was made for the apple— not the apple for the picture.; So let us act, that neither picture , or apple , shall ever be blurred, or broken.; That we may so act, we must study, and understand the points of danger.
  • ;Statesmanship Thesis: An Apple of Gold: Abraham Lincoln and Constitutional Interpretation by Kevin Portteus; 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.ashbrook.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Hereafter, when our children shall ask what mean these tokens, they will be told of your worthy deeds, and will rise up and call you blessed.
  • Abraham Lincoln and Maryland - Abraham Lincoln's Classroom 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  By what means shall we fortify against it? — Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! — .All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.^ If another could take what he earns away, they would own him, for they would have power to extract from him whatever they chose.
  • ;Statesmanship Thesis: An Apple of Gold: Abraham Lincoln and Constitutional Interpretation by Kevin Portteus; 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.ashbrook.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ He remarked to John Hay "that if there was a ; 'game' ever among Union men, to have our army not take an advantage of the enemy when ; it could, it was his object to break up that game."
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  ^ Historian William E. Baringer noted: “The Douglas essay commanded all the publicity the press could give.
  • Abraham Lincoln and Ohio - Abraham Lincoln's Classroom 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  
  .At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected?^ At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected?
  • Abraham Lincoln Quotes :: Quoteland :: Quotations by Author 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.quoteland.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  .I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us.^ I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us.
  • Abraham Lincoln Quotes :: Quoteland :: Quotations by Author 9 February 2010 12:28 UTC www.quoteland.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  It cannot come from abroad. .If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher.^ We must determine for ourselves "what the words of the text mean in our time."
  • ;Statesmanship Thesis: An Apple of Gold: Abraham Lincoln and Constitutional Interpretation by Kevin Portteus; 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.ashbrook.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save ; our country."
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  .As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

• I hope I am over wary; but if I am not, there is, even now, something of ill-omen, amongst us.^ He is all the time doing something of the ; kind."
  • Was Abraham Lincoln a Spiritualist? 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.snu.org.uk [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ I must leave you all ; now; but I hope I shall see you again."
  • Was Abraham Lincoln a Spiritualist? 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.snu.org.uk [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ There are several versions of this speech, but the one from which Arnold quotes says, in conclusion: "All the good from the Saviour of the world is communicated through this book."
  • Abraham Lincoln, Deist, and Admirer of Thomas Paine 14 May 2010 5:21 UTC www.positiveatheism.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  .I mean the increasing disregard for law which pervades the country; the growing disposition to substitute the wild and furious passions, in lieu of the sober judgment of Courts; and the worse than savage mobs, for the executive ministers of justice.