❝ “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 bondsman’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said “ 2418 Abraham Lincoln
❝ “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. The Almighty has His own purposes.” 2418 Abraham Lincoln
❝ “It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: “ 2418 Abraham Lincoln
❝ “Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.” 2418 Abraham Lincoln
❝ “If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.” 2418 Abraham Lincoln
❝ “Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?” 2418 Abraham Lincoln
❝ “Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.” 2418 Abraham Lincoln
❝ “If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?” 2418 Abraham Lincoln