Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Powerful Quotes, War Quotes

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.

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Nevertheless, amid the greatest difficulties of my Administration, when I could not see any other resort, I would place my whole reliance on God, knowing that all would go well, and that He would decide for the right.

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The land, the earth God gave to man for his home ... should never be the possession of any man, corporation, (or) society ... any more than the air or water.

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We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we wish to treat it as a wrong in the territories, where our votes will reach it.

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In 1841 you and I had together a tedious low-water trip, on a Steam Boat from Louisville to St. Louis. You may remember, as I well do, that from Louisville to the mouth of the Ohio there were, on board, ten or a dozen slaves, shackled together with irons. That sight was a continual torment to me; and I see something like it every time I touch the Ohio, or any other slave-border.

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As the problems are new, we must disenthrall ourselves from the past.

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When I lay down the reins of this administration, I want to have one friend left. And that friend is myself.

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If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'.

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No man ever got lost on a straight road.

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We cannot escape history.

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I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

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I turn, then, and look to the American people and to that God who has never forsaken them.

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So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!

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Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other right.

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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

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Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

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It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

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Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.

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Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.

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