Quotes P12 - Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th president of the United States, led the nation through its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis in the American Civil War stated this:

"Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to the other declaration, that for SOME men to enslave OTHERS is a "sacred right of self-government." These principles can not stand together. They are as opposite as God and mammon; and whoever holds to the one, must despise the other."

Speech at Peoria, Illinois, on October 16,
Abrahamlincolnonline.org