| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 1852 |
| AUTHOR: | Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) |
| QUOTATION: | I am exceedingly anxious that this Union, the Constitution, and the liberties of the people shall be perpetuated in accordance with the original idea for which that struggle was made, and I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this, his almost chosen people, for perpetuating the object of that great struggle. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | President-elect ABRAHAM LINCOLN, address to the New Jersey Senate, February 21, 1861.—The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basler, vol. 4, p. 236 (1953). |
| SUBJECTS: | Union |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | WORKS: | Abraham Lincoln Collection | | |
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