Abraham Lincoln Quotes:
Ocupation: 16th U.S. President
Life: February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865
Birthday: February 12
Death: April 15
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.
source: Second Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1865
topic: War, Party, Duration, Causes Of War, American Slavery
