Quotes by Civil War If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. Abraham Lincoln slavery civil-war presidential If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would do that. I have here stated my purpose according to my official duty, and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men, everywhere, could be free. Abraham Lincoln civil-war leaving men I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling. Abraham Lincoln civil-war feelings thinking The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty. Abraham Lincoln civil-war agreement sheep In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. Abraham Lincoln civil-war party god With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right. Abraham Lincoln civil-war military giving I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country. Abraham Lincoln civil-war war country My God! My God! What will the country say? Abraham Lincoln civil-war war country At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. Abraham Lincoln civil-war suicide spring 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. Abraham Lincoln civil-war lasts tasks As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you. Abraham Lincoln civil-war eye war The Almighty has His own purposes. Abraham Lincoln civil-war purpose god Care for him who shall have borne the battle Abraham Lincoln widows-and-orphans civil-war battle Let us strive on to finish the work we are in. Abraham Lincoln civil-war charity motivational In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free. Abraham Lincoln congress-and-the-president civil-war giving I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Abraham Lincoln civil-war events organization The world has never had a good definition Abraham Lincoln civil-war liberty world Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. Abraham Lincoln civil-war unity god God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time. Abraham Lincoln divine-will civil-war god If there is a worse place than Hell, I am in it. Abraham Lincoln civil-war hell war 1234567»