Political Quotes

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Now, therefore, be it known that I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim and direct that all persons detected in that nefarious traffic shall be arrested and tried by court-martial at the nearest…

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.

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.