Quotes for today

A century and a half ago, the Republic began morphing into Empire.

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Democracy broke down, not when the Union ceased to be agreeable to all its constituent States, but when it was upheld, like any other Empire, by force of arms."
~ The London Times

"With what pretence of fairness, it is said, can you Americans object to the secession of the Southern States when your nation was founded on secession from the British Empire?"
~ Cornhill Magazine (London) 1861

"My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave 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."
~ Letter from Abraham Lincoln to Horace Greeley,
Editor of the New York Tribune, August 22, 1862.