“I can't spare this man, he fights!”
Source: The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path
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Famous Abraham Lincoln Quotes
“Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids
“I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game.”
Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)
Source: Lincoln on the Civil War: Selected Speeches
“You are green, it is true; but they are green also. You are all green alike.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln's Wit & Wisdom
“My God! My God! What will the country say?”
Source: Conversations With Lincoln
“The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be.”
“Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.”
“confused and Stunned, like a duck hit on the head.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations
“I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.”
“I know the hole he went in at, but I can't tell you what hole he will come out of.”
Source: The War Years, 1854-1865, Volume 3
Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln
“The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea.”
Source: Lincoln on Democracy
Source: Lincoln's Words: Sentiments from the 16th President of the United States
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations
“If there is a worse place than Hell, I am in it.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln's Wit & Wisdom
“I don't s'pose anybody on earth likes gingerbread better'n I do-and gets less'n I do.”
“The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty”
“I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.”
“If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.”
“As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you.”
“So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!”
“Glory to God in the highest, Ohio has saved the Nation.”
Source: CIVIL WAR – Complete History of the War, Documents, Memoirs & Biographies of the Lead Commanders: Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant & William T. Sherman, Biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis & Robert E. Lee, The Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, Presidential Orders & Actions
“Bring me Longstreet's head on a platter and the war will be over”
“I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia.”
Source: Lincoln on Lincoln
“I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.”
“The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.”
“Every man has a right to be equal with every other man.”
Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln
“We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.”