Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Conflict

• Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Rights, Conflict, Humans

• Behind the cloud the sun is still shining.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Encouraging, Uplifting, Healing

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.191, Wildside Press LLC

• Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Dollars, Conflict

  Abraham Lincoln, Terence Ball (2013). “Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches”, p.30, Cambridge University Press

• It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, "You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it."

  Abraham Lincoln

  Struggle, Two, Toil

  Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas (1860). “Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858 in Illinois: Including the Preceding Speeches of Each at Chicago, Springfield, Etc., Also the Two Great Speeches of Mr. Lincoln in Ohio, in 1859, as Carefully Prepared by the Reporter of Each Party and Published at the Times of Their Delivery”, p.234

• The Democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with another mans right of property. Republicans, on the contrary, are for both the man and the dollar; but in cases of conflict, the man before the dollar.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Democracy, Liberty

  Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher (1977). “Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings”, p.120, Stanford University Press

• A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Law, People

  Abraham Lincoln (1991). “Great Speeches”, p.87, Courier Corporation

• Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Party, Duration

  Second Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1865

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