Abraham Lincoln Quotations | Page 4

Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.

I can't spare this man, he fights!

He has got the slows, Mr. Blair.

The Lord spared the fitten and the rest he seen fitten to die.

Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully.

I am much indebted to the good Christian people of the country for their constant prayers and consolations; and to no one of them, more than to yourself.

We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed.

There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one. There is involved in this struggle the question whether your children and my children shall enjoy the privileges we have enjoyed.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.