Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Constantly bear in mind that not with politicians, not with Presidents, not with office-seekers, but with you, is the question, Shall the Union and shall the liberties of this country be preserved to the latest generations?
Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, 16th President of the United States (Republican, IL), Speech, Indianapolis, Indiana, February 11, 1861
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While Douglas and Lincoln were political opponents with little love lost between them, both were patriots. And Douglas was committed to seeing that Lincoln was inaugurated and the Union preserved, if Lincoln won the election. When Lincoln did so, Douglas traveled throughout the South trying to persuade Southerners to stay in the Union. See {584870}.
To many of us the notion of liberty and aristocracy and nobility are contradictory. However, at the time, the nobility, unlike most Poles, were literate and educated and had followed the U. S. Constitution adoption. And this Constitution was created with the Nobility being one of the driving forces. See {585394}.
This is the libertarian-conservative flip of the famous JFK quotation {589867}.
There was much anti-war sentiment in 1812. Reacting to anti-war literature in Boston bookstores:
In his Senate confirmation hearings Frankfurter was repeatedly asked about his association with the ACLU and his views on Communism by conservative Senator Pat McCarran:
Though Ryan was not necessarily a proponent of Southern secession, he was an outspoken critic of the Lincoln administration’s misuse of Constitutional powers in the Civil War.
Governor Noble himself was a Colonel in the Indiana Militia. Even in a relatively frontier state like Indiana at the time, there was little enthusiasm for a militia. See {613320}.
This is a classic libertarian position.
Abraham Lincoln was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy.
