Lincoln Quotes

[first lines]Private Harold Green: [speaking to Lincoln on the battlefield]Some of us was in the Second Kansas Colored. We fought the Rebs at Jenkins' Ferry last April just after they killed every Negro soldier they captured at Poison Springs. So at Jenkins' Ferry, we decided warn't takin' no Reb prisoners. And we didn't leave a one of 'em alive. The ones of us that didn't die that day, we joined up with the 116th US Colored, sir, from Camp Nelson, Kentucky.

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Robert Lincoln: The war will be over in a month, and you know it will.
Abraham Lincoln: I've found that prophesying is one of life's less profitable occupations.

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Mary Todd Lincoln: [to Thaddeus Stevens]How the people love my husband. They flock to see him by their thousands on public days. They will never love you the way they love him. How difficult it must be for you to know that, and yet how important to remember it.

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