Abraham Lincoln Quotes
I should be damned in time and in eternity for so doing. The world shall know that I will keep my faith to friends and enemies, come what will.
They were visiting the White House to urge Lincoln to negotiate an end to the Civil War by renouncing the Emancipation Proclamation and letting slavery continue if the South ended the rebellion.
Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, 16th President of the United States (Republican, IL), Statement to Alexander W. Randall and Joseph T. Mills, leading Wisconsin politicians, 1864
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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.