Political Quotes

All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.

Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish.

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.