Lincoln and the Fight for Peace Quotes

“America is both North and South, White and Black, Republican and Democrat. We are laughter and loss, Saturday night and Sunday morning, Old Testament and New. Liberty and equality are not opposites in inevitable conflict, but act in concert under the practical balance of the Union. In the end, even war and peace are intimately entwined.”
― John P. Avlon, Lincoln and the Fight for Peace

“As Sherman left City Point that afternoon on the Bat to speed his way back to his men in North Carolina, Lincoln walked with him to the gangplank, leaving the general with the lasting impression that “of all the men I ever met, he seemed to possess more of the elements of greatness, combined with goodness, than any other.”18”
― John P. Avlon, Lincoln and the Fight for Peace