Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Civil War
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The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be.
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To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
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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.
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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.
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Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert? I think that in such a cse to silence the agitator and save the boy is not only constitutional but withal a great mercy.
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During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and send a barrel of it to each of my other generals!
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I don't s'pose anybody on earth likes gingerbread better'n I do-and gets less'n I do.
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War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.
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The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here so nobly advanced.
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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.
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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My Dear McClellan, if you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully.
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Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, . even during a bloody Civil War.
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I freely acknowledge myself the servant of the people, according to the bond of service - the United States Constitution; and that, as such, I am responsible to them.
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You think slavery is right and ought to be extended; while we think it is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us.
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As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.
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A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.
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If there is a worse place than Hell, I am in it.
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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.
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So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!
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Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.
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I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down but I bite my lip and keep quiet.
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The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty
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I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the war.
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Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration
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I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
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We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
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It must now atone in blood for its complicity in wickedness.
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I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country.
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Abraham Lincoln
- Born: February 12, 1809
- Died: April 15, 1865
- Occupation: 16th U.S. President
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