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Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.

Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Teaching, Men
Abraham Lincoln (2011). “Lincoln on War”, p.110, Algonquin Books

One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.

Abraham Lincoln
Powerful, War, Southern
Second Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1865

Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived.

Abraham Lincoln
Life, War, Humor

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

Abraham Lincoln
War, Civil War, Trouble

There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one. There is involved in this struggle the question whether your children and my children shall enjoy the privileges we have enjoyed.

Abraham Lincoln
Children, War, Struggle
Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.623, Library of America

There' s nothing good in war. Except its ending.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Call Of Duty, Good War

The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party - and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose.

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

No State, upon it own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally nothing. I therefore consider that the Union is unbroken. There needs to be no bloodshed or violence; and there shall be none, unless forced upon the national authority.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Needs, Unbroken

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.

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 demagoguism as this?

Abraham Lincoln
War, Government, Long
Notes for Speech, ca. Sept. 1859

Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.

Abraham Lincoln
Peace, Military, War
Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “Abraham Lincoln's Wit & Wisdom”, p.64, Courier Corporation

So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government; and so to resist force, employed for its destruction, by force, for its preservation.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Government, Issues
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.374, ReadHowYouWant.com

At the beginning of the war, and for some time, the use of colored troops was not contemplated; and how the change of purpose was wrought, I will not now take time to explain. Upon a clear conviction of duty I resolved to turn that element of strength to account; and I am responsible for it to the American people, to the christian world, to history, and on my final account to God.

Abraham Lincoln
Christian, Religious, War
Abraham Lincoln (2011). “Lincoln on War”, p.242, Algonquin Books

War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Duration, Terrible
Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.77, Courier Corporation

You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Ambitious, Doe
Abraham Lincoln (2011). “Lincoln on War”, p.183, Algonquin Books

Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Light, Honor
Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862

Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.

Abraham Lincoln
Peace, War, Ubuntu
Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865

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

I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.

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

It's bad. It's damned bad.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Civil War

Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, . even during a bloody Civil War.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Offering, Civilization

confused and Stunned, like a duck hit on the head.

Abraham Lincoln
Confused, War, Ducks
Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.86, Courier Corporation

Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Party, Duration
Second Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1865

I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.

Abraham Lincoln
Art, War, America
Abraham Lincoln, James Baird McClure (2006). “Anecdotes and Stories of Abraham Lincoln”, p.118, Stackpole Books

Bring me Longstreet's head on a platter and the war will be over

Abraham Lincoln
War, Civil War