Political Quotes

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

All dreaded it,--all sought to avert it.

Now, therefore, be it known that I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do issue this my proclamation, as required by said act, ordering and requiting all deserters to return to their proper posts;

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.