"Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hanged." - President Abraham Lincoln
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For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. Eccl 1:18
"...blood can not restore blood, and government should not act for revenge."
Lincoln in a letter to Secretary of War Stanton, on his final decision not to retaliate when Confederate officials threatened to shoot captured Negro soldiers.
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__________________ "The American people and the Government at Washington may refuse to recognize it for a time but the inexorable logic of events will force it upon them in the end; that the war now being waged in this land is a war for and against slavery." Frederick Douglass
"Loyalty to our ancestors does not include loyalty to their mistakes." George Santayana
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"There are two things even God Almighty doesn't know: how a jury will decide, and who a widow will marry."
Abraham Lincoln.
Unionblue
__________________ "The American people and the Government at Washington may refuse to recognize it for a time but the inexorable logic of events will force it upon them in the end; that the war now being waged in this land is a war for and against slavery." Frederick Douglass
"Loyalty to our ancestors does not include loyalty to their mistakes." George Santayana
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"Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backwards."
Abraham Lincoln
Unionblue
__________________ "The American people and the Government at Washington may refuse to recognize it for a time but the inexorable logic of events will force it upon them in the end; that the war now being waged in this land is a war for and against slavery." Frederick Douglass
"Loyalty to our ancestors does not include loyalty to their mistakes." George Santayana
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In his early years of practicing law, Lincoln often had to travel across Illinois in midwinter to get to trial. One bitter day in February, Lincoln rode into town where court was to be held. But when he checked into the inn next to the courthouse, he found the fireplace in the sitting room surrounded by all the other lawyers in town discussing their cases.
"Cold out there, eh?" remarked on of them. "Colder than hell," agreed Lincoln affably. "You've been there too, Mr. Lincoln?" asked another. "Yup," Lincoln said with a smile, "and it's just like here--all the lawyers are standing next to the fire."
Unionblue
__________________ "The American people and the Government at Washington may refuse to recognize it for a time but the inexorable logic of events will force it upon them in the end; that the war now being waged in this land is a war for and against slavery." Frederick Douglass
"Loyalty to our ancestors does not include loyalty to their mistakes." George Santayana
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"I must confess I am afraid of 'Abe'...He is Southern by birth, Southern in his associations and southern, if I mistake not, in his sympathies...His wife, you know, is a Todd, of a pro-slavery family, and so are all his kin."
Charles H. Ray of the Chicago Tribune, on his view of Lincoln in 1854.
Unionblue
__________________ "The American people and the Government at Washington may refuse to recognize it for a time but the inexorable logic of events will force it upon them in the end; that the war now being waged in this land is a war for and against slavery." Frederick Douglass
"Loyalty to our ancestors does not include loyalty to their mistakes." George Santayana
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Abraham Lincoln in a conversation with journalist Henry Villard, 1858.
Unionblue
__________________ "The American people and the Government at Washington may refuse to recognize it for a time but the inexorable logic of events will force it upon them in the end; that the war now being waged in this land is a war for and against slavery." Frederick Douglass
"Loyalty to our ancestors does not include loyalty to their mistakes." George Santayana
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In the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Stephen A. Douglas accused Abraham Lincoln of being two-faced.
"I leave it to you, my friends," Lincoln retorted, turning toward his audience. "If I had two faces, would I be wearing this one?"
Unionblue
__________________ "The American people and the Government at Washington may refuse to recognize it for a time but the inexorable logic of events will force it upon them in the end; that the war now being waged in this land is a war for and against slavery." Frederick Douglass
"Loyalty to our ancestors does not include loyalty to their mistakes." George Santayana
From Germany came a letter applauding Lincoln's reelection in November 1864:
We congratulate you on your re-election by the American people. If resistance to slave power was the watchword of your first election in 1860, the triumphal war cry of your re-election is death to slavery.
The letter was signed by Karl Marx, who had recently published Das Kapital.
Unionblue
__________________ "The American people and the Government at Washington may refuse to recognize it for a time but the inexorable logic of events will force it upon them in the end; that the war now being waged in this land is a war for and against slavery." Frederick Douglass
"Loyalty to our ancestors does not include loyalty to their mistakes." George Santayana
"I think the Constitution invests its Commander-in-Chief with the law of war in time of war."
Abraham Lincoln.
Unionblue
__________________ "The American people and the Government at Washington may refuse to recognize it for a time but the inexorable logic of events will force it upon them in the end; that the war now being waged in this land is a war for and against slavery." Frederick Douglass
"Loyalty to our ancestors does not include loyalty to their mistakes." George Santayana
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