Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution Quotes

“Grant said that Shiloh convinced him that the rebellion could be crushed only by complete conquest,”
― James M. McPherson, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

“The South was rebelling “not in the interest of general humanity, but of a domestic despotism. … Their motto is not liberty, but slavery.”
― James M. McPherson, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

“To curb this tendency, framers of the Constitution devised a series of checks and balances that divided power among three branches of the national government, between two houses of Congress, and among the state and federal governments as an “essential precaution in favor of liberty.”
― James M. McPherson, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

“There is a tendency in all Governments to an augmentation of power at the expense of liberty,” wrote James Madison”
― James M. McPherson, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

“lest”
― James M. McPherson, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

“wage”
― James M. McPherson, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

“Dred Scott decision that legalized slavery in all territories;”
― James M. McPherson, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

“queer”
― James M. McPherson, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

“sternly,”
― James M. McPherson, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

“included the destruction of any property or other resources used to sustain Confederate armies as well as of those armies themselves.”
― James M. McPherson, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

“He had been willing to risk war rather than let the nation perish.”
― James M. McPherson, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

“bestride”
― James M. McPherson, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

“Know-Nothings,”
― James M. McPherson, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

“Herrenvolk”
― James M. McPherson, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

“the right of revolution, is never a legal right. … At most, it is but a moral right, when exercised for a morally justifiable cause. When exercised without such a cause revolution is no right, but simply a wicked exercise of physical power.”14”
― James M. McPherson, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

“The Civil War started out as one kind of conflict and ended as something quite different.”
― James M. McPherson, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

“conservative because “he accepted the need of dealing with things as they were, not as he would have wished them to be.”2”
― James M. McPherson, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

“the slaves in the seven cotton states of the lower South had received in the form of food, clothing, and shelter only 22 percent of the income produced by the plantations and farms on which they worked.”
― James M. McPherson, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

“tenure”
― James M. McPherson, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

“1860 the South’s share of national wealth was 30 percent; in 1870 it was only 12 percent.”
― James M. McPherson, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

“northern”
― James M. McPherson, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

“wastage”
― James M. McPherson, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

“But this truth actually supports rather than contravenes the Beard and Moore theses. Most”
― James M. McPherson, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

“It was a violent breakthrough against an older social structure.”
― James M. McPherson, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

“conception of democracy that includes the goals of human equality, even the limited form of equality of opportunity, and human freedom. … Labor-repressive agricultural systems, and plantation slavery in particular, are political obstacles to a particular kind of capitalism, at a specific historical stage: competitive democratic capitalism we must call it for lack of a more precise term.”
― James M. McPherson, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

“formidable obstacle to the establishment of industrial capitalist democracy”
― James M. McPherson, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

“slave system presented no obstacle to the growth of industrial capitalism as an economic system”
― James M. McPherson, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

“Thus the war was a struggle between two conflicting capitalist systems—one reactionary, based on slave labor, and fearful of change; the other progressive, competitive, innovative, and democratic.”
― James M. McPherson, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

“sees the revolutionary dimension of the war not simply as a triumph of freedom over slavery, or industrialism over agriculture, or the bourgeoisie over the plantation gentry—but as a combination of all these things. Plantation agriculture in the South was not a form of feudalism, Moore insists; rather, it was a special form of capitalism that spawned a value system and an ideology that glorified hereditary privilege, racial caste, and slavery while it rejected bourgeois”
― James M. McPherson, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

“That a large percentage of the white “proletariat” in both North and South either supported the Confederacy or opposed emancipation, however, is something of an embarrassment to the Marxian interpretation.”
― James M. McPherson, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution