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Abraham Lincoln Quotations on "Peace"

By Presidential - Posted on 13 April 2009

Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in the bonds of fraternal feeling. - Remarks at Springfield, Illinois
The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it. - Address to the New Jersey General Assembly
I have desired as sincerely as any man -- I sometimes think more than any other man -- that our present difficulties might be settled without the shedding of blood. - Address to the Frontier Guard
Engaged, as I am, in a great war, I fear it will be difficult for the world to understand how fully I appreciate the principles of peace, inculcated in this letter, and everywhere, by the Society of Friends. - Letter to Samuel B. Tobey