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  • America has no north, no south, no east, no west. The sun rises over the hills and sets over the mountains, the compass just points up and down, and we can laugh now at the absurd notion of there being a north and a south. We are one and undivided.

    War   America   History  
  • 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.

    Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863.
  • 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.

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

    War   Men   Despotism  
    Letter to Joshua F. Speed, 24 Aug. 1855
  • Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

    Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865
  • 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.

    First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861
  • Died of wounds inflicted in error by his own troops at the battle of Chancellorsville during the US Civil War. Let us cross over the river and sit in the shade of the trees.

    War   Errors   Rivers  
  • Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

    Change   Freedom   Father  
    Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863
  • Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.

    Cornerstone Speech, Delivered 21 March 1861, Savannah, Georgia
  • the better angels of our nature

    First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861
  • I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than the dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all the evils we complain of, and I am willing to sacrifice everything but honor for its preservation.

    Country   War   Sacrifice  
    Letter to his son, G. W. Custis Lee, January 23, 1861.
  • In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

    Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862
  • One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended.

    Abraham Lincoln, Terence Ball (2013). “Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches”, p.121, Cambridge University Press
  • With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.

    Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865
  • With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

    God   Business   Work  
    Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865
  • 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.

    War   Party   Mean  
    Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1338, Jazzybee Verlag
  • That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

    Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863.
  • It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.

    Attributed; after the battle of Fredericksburg, December 1862
  • What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.

    Peace   War   Heart  
    Robert E. Lee (2016). “The Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee (Abridged)”, p.206, BIG BYTE BOOKS
  • Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

    War   Long   Gettysburg  
    Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863
  • But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or to detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

    4th Of July   Men   Long  
    Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863.
  • We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.

    Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863.
  • We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

    Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Md., 18 Apr. 1864
  • If slaves will make good soldiers, then our whole theory of slavery is wrong.

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

    Peace   War   Ubuntu  
    Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865
  • In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

    Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862
  • The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. --as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS

    Dream   Nature   Memories  
    Harold Holzer, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Lincoln Mailbag: America Writes to the President, 1861-1865”, p.7, SIU Press
  • 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.

    Prayer   War   Men  
    Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865
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