Widger's Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Works of Abraham Lincoln — John Shaqi
Widger's Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Works of Abraham LincolnLincoln, Abraham
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Widger's Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Works of Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln, Abraham
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THE ENTIRE WRITINGS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
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100,000 slaves are now in the United States military service
Abolishing slavery in Washington, DC
Abraham or "Abram"
Act in such a manner as to create no bad feeling
Address at Gettysburg
Address to General Grant
Affected contempt of refinement
All know where he went in at; can't tell where he will come out at
All agreed on this except South Carolina and Georgia
And the war came
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master
Ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship
Bad promises are better broken than kept
Better for their own good than if they had been successful
Boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death
Bread that his own hands have earned
Came forward and made a virtue of necessity
Circumstantial evidence
Colonization
Common right of humanity
Compensated Emancipation
Conspiracy to perpetuate and nationalize slavery
Constitution alludes to slavery three times
Constitutional Amendment for the Abolishing of Slavery
Cotton gin
Could not afford to make money
Counterfeit logic
Counterfeit logic
Crime to tell him that he is free!
Danger of third-parties
Declaration of Independence
Declaring the African slave trade piracy
Direct while appearing to obey
Dirge of one who has no title to himself
Distinction between a purpose and an expectation
Don't think it will do him a bit of good either
Dred Scott
Dred Scott
Early Consultations with Rebels
Emancipation Proclamation
Emancipation
Endeavoring to blow up a storm that he may ride upon
Estimated as mere brutes--as rightful property
Events control me; I cannot control events
Explanations explanatory of explanations explained
Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage
Father's request for money
Female Spy
First Inaugural Address
First Overtures for Surrender from Davis
Five-star Mother
Forbids the marrying of white people with negroes
Forever forbid the two races living together
Fort Pillow Massacre
Four Score and Seven Years Ago
Frankly that I am not in favor of negro citizenship
Free all the slaves, and send them to Liberia
Fugitive Slave law
Further Democratic Party Criticism
General Grant is a copious worker
General McClellan's Tired Horses
General Grant
Get along without making either slaves or wives of negroes
Gingerbread
God gave him but little, that little let him enjoy
Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free
Government was made for the white people
Grant--very meager writer or telegrapher
Grant's Exclusion of a Newspaper Reporter
Gratuitous Hostility
Greeley
Hard to affirm a negative
Henry Clay
House divided against itself cannot stand
I can't spare that man, he fights!
I must say I do not think myself fit for the Presidency
I authorize no bargains and will be bound by none
I shall go to the wall for bread and meat
I like the system which lets a man quit when he wants to
Idealization which so easily runs into the commonplace
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