Abraham Lincoln

Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.

Abraham Lincoln

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

Abraham Lincoln

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

Abraham Lincoln

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature-oppositi on to it is in his love of justice.

Abraham Lincoln

So true it is that man proposes and God disposes.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Abraham Lincoln

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

Abraham Lincoln

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

Abraham Lincoln

Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.

Abraham Lincoln

Still, to use a coarse, but an expressive figure, broken eggs can not be mended. I have issued the emancipation proclamation, and I can not retract it.

Abraham Lincoln