Abraham Lincoln Quotes
I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.
Lincoln, Abraham. "Handbill Replying to Charges of Infidelity." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, edited by Roy P. Basler, vol. 1, Rutgers University Press, 1953, p. 382.
Kuo resigned in protest over the callous use that the administration was making of the religious right. Ironically, Bush, more so than any other American President, had pushed or crossed the wall of separation of church and state to provide Federal funds to Protestant Evangelical churches. However Kuo was of the opinion that the motivation was political and not principled or evangelical.
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.
