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The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

Abraham Lincoln
Sheep, Agreement, Civil War
Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Md., 18 Apr. 1864

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 do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would do that. I have here stated my purpose according to my official duty, and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men, everywhere, could be free.

Abraham Lincoln
Men, Leaving, Civil War
Letter to Horace Greeley, 22 August 1862

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

Abraham Lincoln
Presidential, Civil War, Slavery
Letter to Albert G. Hodges, 4 Apr. 1864

God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time.

Abraham Lincoln
God, Civil War, Divine Will
"Meditation on the DivineWill," ca. 2 Sept. 1862

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling.

Abraham Lincoln
Thinking, Feelings, Civil War
Letter to Albert G. Hodges, 4 Apr. 1864

With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.

Abraham Lincoln
Military, Giving, Civil War
Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865

If there is a worse place than Hell, I am in it.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Civil War, Hell
Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “Abraham Lincoln's Wit & Wisdom”, p.191, Courier Corporation

The Almighty has His own purposes.

Abraham Lincoln
God, Civil War, Purpose
Second Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1865

The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Civil War, Trouble

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

Abraham Lincoln
Friendship, Real Friends, Civil War
Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.361, Jazzybee Verlag

Care for him who shall have borne the battle

Abraham Lincoln
Widows And Orphans, Civil War, Battle
Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865

As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Eye, Civil War
Attributed reply to the South Carolina Commissioners.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

Abraham Lincoln
Civil War, Tasks, Lasts
Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

Abraham Lincoln
God, Party, Civil War
"Meditation on the DivineWill," ca. 2 Sept. 1862

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

Abraham Lincoln
Organization, Civil War, Events
Letter to Albert G. Hodges, 4 Apr. 1864

The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.

Abraham Lincoln
Pride, Sacrifice, Civil War
Letter to Lydia Bixby, 21 Nov. 1864.

I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country.

Abraham Lincoln
Country, War, Civil War
Abraham Lincoln (1944). “Selected writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.310, Рипол Классик

Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

Abraham Lincoln
Motivational, Civil War, Charity
Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

Abraham Lincoln
Congress And The President, Giving, Civil War
Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862

We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

Abraham Lincoln
Mean, Civil War, Liberty
Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Md., 18 Apr. 1864

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Abraham Lincoln
Suicide, Spring, Civil War
Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.32, Penguin

It's bad. It's damned bad.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Civil War

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.

Abraham Lincoln
Patriotic, Civil War, Politics
Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863.

Do the people of the South really entertain fears that a Republican administration would, directly, or indirectly, interfere with their slaves, or with them, about their slaves? If they do, I wish to assure you, as once a friend, and still, I hope, not an enemy, that there is no cause for such fears.

Abraham Lincoln
People, Civil War, Enemy
Abraham Lincoln (2017). “The Complete Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.1237, Open Road Media

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty

Abraham Lincoln
Civil War, Liberty, World
Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Md., 18 Apr. 1864