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“So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!” Abraham Lincoln on meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

“I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.” Abraham Lincoln, letter to A. G. Hodges, April 4, 1864.

“My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union…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 … Continue reading →

“Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bond-man’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited … Continue reading →

“In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.” Abraham Lincoln, Annual Message … Continue reading →

“Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history…No personal signif­icance or insignif­icance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.” Abraham Lincoln, Annual Message … Continue reading →

“‘A house divided against itself cannot stand.’ I believe this government cannot endure perma­nently, half slave and half free.” Abraham Lincoln, Speech, June 16, 1858.

“To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.” Abraham Lincoln, Speech, May 18, 1858

” But war’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.” William Cowper, English poet (1731–1800)

“As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.” Jean Giradoux