Quotes: Favorites Quotes: Author Quotes: Topics Quotes: Collection Sig Services Blueprint Results Process Contact
Background Image
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. if i could save the union without freeing any slave i would do it, and if i could save it by freeing all the slaves i would do it; and if i could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone i would also do that. what i do about slavery, and the colored race, i do because i believe it helps to save the union; and what i forbear, i forbear because i do not believe it would help to save the union.
-Abraham Lincoln
Please Wait....
Translating....

My Paramount Object In This Struggle Is

Abraham Lincoln
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. if i could save the union without freeing any slave i would do it, and if i could save it by freeing all the slaves i would do it; and if i could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone i would also do that. what i do about slavery, and the colored race, i do because i believe it helps to save the union; and what i forbear, i forbear because i do not believe it would help to save the union.
Views: 9
Cite this Page
Prevent plagiarism by providing proper attribution.
APA FORMAT
Embed this Quote
Copy this HTML code to embed the quote on your website or blog.
HTML CODE
Topic
War Believe Struggle

More From Abraham Lincoln

If i could save the union without freeing any slave, i would do it; and if i could save it by freeing all the slaves, i would do it; and if i could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, i would do that. i have here stated my purpose according to my official duty, and i intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men, everywhere, could be free.
Men Leaving Civil War
As for slavery, there is no need for me to speak of its bad aspects. the only thing requiring explanation is the good side of slavery. i do not mean indirect slavery, the slavery of proletariat; i mean direct slavery, the slavery of the blacks in surinam, in brazil, in the southern regions of north america. direct slavery is as much the pivot upon which our present-day industrialism turns as are machinery, credit, etc. … slavery is therefore an economic category of paramount importance.
Mean America Southern
All you have to do is go back to slavery - days, and there were two types of slaves, the house slave and the field slave. the house slave was the one who believed in the master, who had confidence in the master and usually was very friendly with the master. and usually he was also used by the master to try and keep the other slaves pacified.
Two House Trying
My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the union, and is not to either save or destroy slavery.
War Struggle Slavery
Abortion on demand is the ultimate state tyranny; the state simply declares that certain classes of human beings are not persons, and therefore not entitled to the protection of the law. the state protects the 'right' of some people to kill others, just as the courts protected the 'property rights' of slave masters in their slaves. moreover, by this method the state achieves a goal common to all totalitarian regimes: it sets us against each other, so that our energies are spent in the struggle between state-created classes, rather than in freeing all individuals from the state.
Struggle Law Class
Individuals who have been wronged by unlawful racial discrimination should be made whole; but under our constitution there can be no such thing as either a creditor or a debtor race. that concept is alien to the constitution's focus upon the individual. ...to pursue the concept of racial entitlement - even for the most admirable and benign of purposes - is to reinforce and preserve for future mischief the way of thinking that produced race slavery, race privilege and race hatred. in the eyes of government, we are just one race here. it is american.
Eye Thinking Race
Similar Quotes
I represent what is left of a vanishing race, and that is the pedestrian. that i am still able to be here, i owe to a keen eye and a nimble pair of legs. but i know they'll get me someday.
Eye Race Hiking
People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint.
Hero Eye Men
Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich.
Eye World Rich
Swaraj is not meant for cowards, but for those who would mount smilingly to the gallows and refuse even to allow their eyes to be bandaged.
Eye Coward Gallows

Trending Author

Axl Rose
Axl Rose
James Freeman Clarke
James Freeman Clarke
Frederik Pohl
Frederik Pohl
Sam Snead
Sam Snead
Karl Radek
Karl Radek
Nigella Lawson
Nigella Lawson
Category
Information
Inspirational
Philosophy
Personal Growth
Happiness & Joy
Life Lessons
Success & Business
Motivation
Quote AI Helper
Hello! I'm your AI assistant. Ask me anything about quotes or authors!