Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Property is desirable, is a positive good in the world.
Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, 16th President of the United States (Republican, IL), Message to Congress, December 3, 1861
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Day was often associated with left wing causes, but she was very hard to classify in traditional political terms. This quotation shows that unlike most communists and many socialists, she was an advocate of private property although she fought for the ability of a larger proportion of the population to have property.
Statements like this caused some to believe him a Marxist, but see his quotation on Karl Marx -- {603061}.
See {627027} for an earlier expression of this point.
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.
