FEATURED QUOTE // REF #01411
“Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.”
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Abraham Lincoln
“Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.”
Abraham Lincoln
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AuthorAbraham Lincoln
Discipline16th U. S. President
Born12 February 1809
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Biography
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.