Will Hurd Quotes

By God, that means nigger citizenship …. That will be the last speech Lincoln will ever make.

Abraham Lincoln is the most powerful slave catcher in America.

Lincoln was the Twain of our politics.

If it wasn't for Abe Lincoln, I'd still be on the open market.

If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave.

As long as it served his purpose, Mr. Lincoln boldly advocated the right of Secession.

Presidents in wartime, embattled presidents, unpopular presidents, they all look to Lincoln. He's their patron saint because no president was more embattled or more unpopular than Lincoln was during his presidency. We think he was born on Mount Rushmore. Not so.

I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican.

The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and enforcement did not reach Texas until after the end of the Civil War almost two years later.

Lincoln's paper proclamation must now become iron, lead and fire.

My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy Slavery. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because it helps to save the Union, and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.

The terms were that the war was not to be ended until the South is crushed, slavery was abolished and Lincoln was reelected

When Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, he turned the Civil War into a revolution.

I think it's important to understand the history of the Republican Party. It was founded in 1854 because of the moral collapse of the Whig Party, specifically around the question of race and the expansion of slavery into the western territories.

Most fourth graders can't say why Abraham Lincoln is an important historical figure? Wow. This is far more distressing than if the news had been that fourth graders were bad at reciting multiplication tables, because you can, in fact, Google that.

Lincoln prevailed: wearing his green shawl in the White House and gripped with melancholy, his feet constantly cold, he preserved a nation that had begun to unravel, often holding it together with nothing more than the flat of his hand and his unfaltering sense of human worth.

African American history is really American history because African Americans really helped build this country.

We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.

America is not perfect. It took a bloody civil war to free over 4 million African Americans who lived enslaved. It took another hundred years after that before they achieved full equality under the law.

Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge.

I walked out of Spielberg's 'Lincoln' having such a thirst for more. It used such a microscopic albeit enormous event in American history. It used such a small piece of his presidency to illustrate him as a president through the lens of that event.

My memoirs were written, and a portion of them already in the hands of the publishers, when the startling news came which has thrilled all Europe and filled her inhabitants with horror - the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States.

President Abraham Lincoln never lost his ardor for the United States to remain united during the Civil War.

The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War - when I really think about them, they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea.

Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.