Abraham Lincoln Quotes
We are not, as a race, so much disposed to fight and kill one another as our red brethren.
The midst of the Civil War, one of the bloodiest in history for any race.
Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, 16th President of the United States (Republican, IL), Statement to a group of Indians who had come to the White House, March 27, 1863
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While this was a common attitude for years before, the horrors of World War II produced a general revulsion to war and an awareness that war between two nations spills over to other states in the region and in an era of globalization, effects countries in other parts of the world. So there has been a tendency to use diplomacy endlessly, even after "things have gone too far". Historically, when things reached that point, the parties did fight it out, and when one was weakened sufficiently, negotiations and diplomacy could then be fruitful.
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.
