Abraham Lincoln Quotes
We must believe that He permits it [this war] for some wise purpose of his own, mysterious and unknown to us; and though with ourlimited understandings we may not be able to comprehend it, yet we cannot but believe, that he who made the world still governs it.
Lincoln, Abraham. "Letter to Eliza P. Gurney." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, edited by Roy P. Basler, vol. 7, Rutgers University Press, 1953, p. 535.
Of all presidential statements about a Supreme Being, this is probably the one that argues for the greatest dependency on such. It is not quoted very often because Pierce was one of our weaker Presidents.
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.
