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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 or

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 or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Race, White
Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas, Charleston, Ill., 18 Sept. 1858

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Abraham Lincoln
Country, War, Safety
Abraham Lincoln (1907). “The Lincoln Year Book: Axioms and Aphorisms from the Great Emancipator”, p.28, Library of Alexandria

We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. 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 many mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men's labor. 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 different and incompatible names - liberty and tyranny.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Party, Mean
Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1338, Jazzybee Verlag

I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Office, Favors
Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas, Charleston, Ill., 18 Sept. 1858

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. 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.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Believe, Struggle
Letter to Horace Greeley, 22 Aug. 1862

His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Food, Shadow

There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.

Abraham Lincoln
Peace, Military, War

Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. 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. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully.

Abraham Lincoln
Prayer, War, Men
Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion. We cannot escape history. We will be remembered in spite of ourselves. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour, to the last generation. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, our last best hope of Earth.

Abraham Lincoln
Peace, War, Past

I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Work, Believe
Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.176, Fordham Univ Press

That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans 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, thence forward, and forever free.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Eight, Years
Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, 22 Sept. 1862

I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.

Abraham Lincoln
War, May, Platforms
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.218, Wildside Press LLC

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Long, Gettysburg
Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863

There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end.

Abraham Lincoln
War, People, Sides

What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not...the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of our gallant and disciplined army...our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms...

Abraham Lincoln
War, Army, Gun
"Lincoln on Democracy" by Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt, Fordham University Press, (p. 128), September 1, 2004.

I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Favors, Tariffs
"Obama's Challenge: What Would Lincoln Do?" by Cristina Corbin, www.foxnews.com. February 11, 2009.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

Abraham Lincoln
Money, Horse, War

I can't spare this man, he fights!

Abraham Lincoln
War, Fighting, Men
Gene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Future, Drug
Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.50, Library of America

My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Struggle, Slavery
Letter to Horace Greeley, 22 Aug. 1862

If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they'd have to sleep standing up.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Lying, Sleep
Abraham Lincoln (2001). “Lincoln's Words: Sentiments from the 16th President of the United States”

I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Favors, Colonization
Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.243, Penguin

We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

Abraham Lincoln
Religious, War, Errors
Abraham Lincoln, H. Jack Lang (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln as Reflected in His Briefer Letters and Speeches”, p.240, Stackpole Books

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

You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Thinking, Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln, Terence Ball (2013). “Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches”, p.188, Cambridge University Press