The Lincoln Myth Quotes
"The prophets have faced threats as great as or greater than those I face today. Yet they never wavered from doing what had to be done."
"To lie in search of the truth was not a lie. To kill for another’s salvation was an act of love."
"This is a conflict for a great national object and the Negro has nothing to do with it."
"If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it."
"The general will be removed. But not until a suitable replacement is found."
"I so enjoy it here. I'm glad you could finally come for a visit."
"The country which I left you, and for that I apologize."
"The fate of millions depended on the decisions he would make."
"I will drink a toast to the overthrow of the mobocrats. Here's wishing they were in the middle of the sea in a stone canoe, with iron paddles, and that a shark swallowed the canoe and the devil swallowed the shark and himself locked up in the northwest corner of hell, the key lost and a blind man hunting it."
"Our persecutors will have all the mobbings they want. Don't wish them any harm, for when you see their sufferings you will shed bitter tears for them."
"I love the Constitution. It was made by the inspiration of God, and it will be preserved and saved by the efforts of the White Horse, and by the Red Horse, who will combine in its defense."
"The act which consummated her admission into the Union was something more than a compact; it was the incorporation of a new member into the political body. And it was final."
"The union between Texas and the other States was as complete, as perpetual, and as indissoluble as the union between the original States."
"What can be indissoluble if a perpetual union, made more perfect, is not?"
"The obligations of the State, as a member of the Union, and of every citizen of the State, as a citizen of the United States, remained perfect and unimpaired."
"The union of the States never was a purely artificial and arbitrary relation."
"It is difficult to convey the idea of indissoluble unity more clearly than by these words."
"Our conclusion therefore is, that Texas continued to be a State, and a State of the Union, notwithstanding the transactions to which we have referred."
"Mormonism abhorred violence... But that had been a matter of survival."
"He cares for me a great deal. I feel like a cheat."
"You’re assisting a U.S. intelligence operation. That’s all."
"I had to involve Cotton. He handled it, but he killed three men."
"The Elder Rowan, Salazar mentioned, is Senator Thaddeus Rowan of Utah."
"Interesting the differences between the two men."
"It is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it."
"Each morning, on awakening from my troubled slumbers, the utter responsibility of living another day so wretched appears to me as an impossibility."
"He fought that war to create one, coining the notion that the Union was somehow perpetual."
"It is therefore that the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others."
"Most men indeed as well as most sects in Religion, think themselves in possession of all truth, and that wherever others differ from them it is so far error."
"For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise."
"It’s part of my religion. It foretells a great change for America. One that Latter-day Saints will be participants in accomplishing."
"This constitution had been formed without the knowledge or idea of the people."
"Our Doctrine and Covenants declare that the Constitution is an inspired document, established by the hands of wise men."
"We have no idea what happened at that convention. We only know what Madison wanted us to know."
"Secession would not only be legal under that view, it would be sacred."
"If the States were equally sovereign now, they would remain equally sovereign." - Mr. Williamson
"The best protection from tyranny is the right to escape it." - Mr. Sherman
"For a political union to succeed, there must be a perpetual element." - Col. Mason
"The rich man who enters into Society along with the poor man, gives up more than the poor man." - Mr. Sherman
"What be the point of forming an association, if it be so easily dissolved." - Mr. Madison
"The time will come when the destiny of the nation will hang upon a single thread." - Brigham Young
"Thank God we have a Government." - J Dillon (Lincoln's watchmaker)
"Be good to your uncle. He needs you, though he’ll probably never admit that." - Luke's father
"A mother at home improved children’s school performance and stimulated a healthier work ethic." - Josepe Salazar
"No one thing kept them apart. Over time, the distance between them grew." - Luke's mother on Danny and her husband
"I'm prepared to answer to Heavenly Father. Are you?"
"That he chose the Union. He chose this country. I would have done the same."
"Lincoln decided that the United States was more important than the individual states."
"This Lincoln myth will end. The nation will see him for what he was."
"He knew Young would never just take his word, so he sent something of enough value for Young to see he was serious."
"If we’re successful, everything will change."
"Brigham Young made a mistake trusting the federal government."
"I am a warrior of God. Server of the prophets."
"Wherefore, this is the land of promise and the place for the city of Zion. And thus saith the Lord your God, if you will receive wisdom here is wisdom."
"You elders of Israel, have you not entered into a covenant with God that you never would betray one another? A covenant not to speak against the anointed."
"Shedding human blood is necessary for the remission of sin."
"Don’t be alarmed if there be curiosities in Zion. If I wished to find the best men in the world, I should go to Zion to find them."
"You are no different from Judas, who deceived and betrayed Jesus Christ."
"If the gentiles wish to see a few tricks, we can perform them."
"When a man prays for a thing, he ought to be willing to perform it himself."
"The greatest enemy of truth is often not the lie—deliberate, contrived and dishonest—but the myth—persistent, persuasive and unrealistic."
"If a state could choose to join the Union, then a state could choose to leave."