Lincoln understood this better than most when he said in his `` Second Inaugural '' that God `` gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came ''.

Douglas said that Lincoln was defying the authority of the U. S. Supreme Court and the Dred Scott decision.

" In response to an inquiry about his presidential intentions, Lincoln said, " The taste is in my mouth a little.

Responding to criticism of Grant after Shiloh, Lincoln had said, " I can't spare this man.

" At this speech he also said: " Though Mr. Lincoln shared the prejudices of his white fellow-countrymen against the Negro, it is hardly necessary to say that in his heart of hearts he loathed and hated slavery ...."

Lincoln's sister-in-law, sitting with him in the same presidential box where he would later be slain, turned to him and said, " Mr. Lincoln, he looks as if he meant that for you.

After destroying the toilet, Moon then allegedly drove a Cadillac ( Moon said a Lincoln Continental ) into the hotel swimming pool.

American civil religion, for example, might be said to have its own set of sacred " things ": the Flag of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., etc.

Grant said of Lincoln, " He was incontestably the greatest man I have ever known.

Lincoln Memorial where Abraham Lincoln is said to have selected Council Bluffs as the eastern terminus after visiting this site in 1859 under the employ of Thomas C. Durant.

" God won't let master Lincoln beat the South till he does the right thing ," she said.

Matthew Paris reports that the Bishop of Lincoln, Robert Grosseteste, once said to Simon's eldest son Henry: " My beloved child, both you and your father will meet your deaths on one day, and by one kind of death, but it will be in the name of justice and truth.

Lincoln flatly denied recognition of the Confederacy, and said that the slaves covered by his Emancipation Proclamation would not be re-enslaved.

Though not all manuscript versions of the Gettysburg Address contain the words " under God ", all the reporters ' transcripts of the speech as delivered do, as perhaps Lincoln may have deviated from his prepared text and inserted the phrase when he said " that the nation shall, under God, have a new birth of freedom.

However, Nunberg said that to Lincoln and his contemporaries, " under God " meant " God willing " and they would have found its use in the Pledge of Allegiance grammatically incorrect.

Time said, " An admirable revival of Lillian Hellman's 1939 play in Lincoln Center demonstrates how securely bricks of character can be sealed together with the mortar of plot.

" Historians are undecided if Lincoln actually said this line, and in a letter that Stowe wrote to her husband a few hours after meeting with Lincoln no mention of this comment was made.

Historian David Potter ( 1976 ) said the emotional effect of Brown's raid was greater than the philosophical effect of the Lincoln – Douglas debates, and that his raid revealed a deep division between North and South.

When Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas gave speeches in Greenville in 1858 during a campaign for the United States Senate, Douglas said: " Ladies and gentlemen it gives me great and supreme gratification and pleasure to see this vast concourse of people assembled to hear me upon this my first visit to Old Bond.

It has been said that Lincoln spent the night in Hainesville a few times.

The one representing Illinois was provided with a wreath of leaves and flowers, with which it is presumed she meant to crown or encircle the man they delighted to honor, but Mr. Lincoln very quietly said: ' Wear it yourself, dear, they become you better than me.

The ideology is said to be heavily influenced by Sun's experiences in the United States and contains elements of the American progressive movement and the thought championed by Abraham Lincoln.