If You Want to Anger a Conservative .........

[Buffalo Jim]

" If you want to anger a Conservative tell a lie . If you want to anger a Liberal tell the truth . "

Teddy Roosevelt

[MDLNB]

" If you want to anger a Conservative tell a lie . If you want to anger a Liberal tell the truth . "

Teddy Roosevelt

And it still pertains at the present. :coolsmiley:

[ColdNoMore]

" If you want to anger a Conservative tell a lie . If you want to anger a Liberal tell the truth . "

Teddy Roosevelt

:1rotfl:

Teddy Roosevelt on Conservatives vs. Liberals : snopes.com (http://www.snopes.com/teddy-roosevelt-anger-a-liberal-quote/)


FALSE


However, although dozens of sites have attributed the phrase to the former president, none have been able to provide any information about where and when Roosevelt supposedly made this remark. The quote displayed above has been in circulation since at least 2004, when it was shared in the signature of someone (not Roosevelt) posting on an online forum.


"To anger a conservative, provide an internet link to their lies...and then watch them cry & whine."

Abraham Lincoln




:D

[MDLNB]

Hey Can't No Mo..............pull my finger.........:boom:....again......:a20:

[rubicon]

" If you want to anger a Conservative tell a lie . If you want to anger a Liberal tell the truth . "

Teddy Roosevelt

You got that quote from a letter to the editor in today's (Tues 1/3) Daily Sun didn't you. It actually is "If you want to anger a conservative, tell him the truth". If you want to anger a liberal, tell him the truth"

It was a good letter. Can you imagine back in the early 1900's they were saying the same thing about liberals as they continue to say today. You just can't help some people and apparently this applies to liberals.

Personal Best Regards:

[woodywdmt]

If you want to anger a conservative just speak to a point that makes sense and back it up with simple facts.

[MDLNB]

If you want to anger a conservative just speak to a point that makes sense and back it up with simple facts.

Facts to a liberal is whatever her liberal talking points tell her.

[MDLNB]

How do you confuse a liberal? You can't, they're born that way.

[MDLNB]

What do you call a basement full of Liberals? A whine cellar.

[MDLNB]

Did you hear about the new Obama diet? You let Putin eat your lunch everyday.

[MDLNB]

What do you get when you tell a liberal "a penny for your thoughts"? CHANGE.

[rubicon]

There are some funny lines here:1rotfl: We need to joke and laugh more both democrat and republican after all none of us is getting out of here alive.

Personal Best Regards:

[Don Baldwin]

There are some funny lines here:1rotfl: We need to joke and laugh more both democrat and republican after all none of us is getting out of here alive.

Personal Best Regards:

We laugh and joke...we "fiddle" as our country burns...1/3 Hispanic, from #1 to #25...we're doing just great!

We'll be Mexico II within 30 years...something for your granddaughters to look forward to.

[Cedwards38]

.......and just as a point of clarification, the whole notion of what is a liberal and what is a conservative has changed dramatically since the days of Theodore Roosevelt. Abraham Lincoln, a Republican, was a liberal in political thought because he opposed slavery. Teddy Roosevelt was the "trust buster" who favored government regulation, which made him a flaming liberal in his time. He actually ran for POTUS later in life under the Progressive Party nomination.

[MDLNB]

.......and just as a point of clarification, the whole notion of what is a liberal and what is a conservative has changed dramatically since the days of Theodore Roosevelt. Abraham Lincoln, a Republican, was a liberal in political thought because he opposed slavery. Teddy Roosevelt was the "trust buster" who favored government regulation, which made him a flaming liberal in his time. He actually ran for POTUS later in life under the Progressive Party nomination.

I bet there is a point buried in there somewhere.

Reagan was a Democrat for a time, also. Then he grew older and wiser. Does that fit in your narrative?

[Cedwards38]

What do Republicans and porn stars have in common? They are experts in switching positions in front of a camera.

What do you get when you offer a member of the Tea Party a penny for his thoughts? Change.

What the difference between a Conservative and the rear end of a horse? I don't know either.

Why should Creationism be taught in schools? Because it leaves less time to teach Global warming and tobacco's link to cancer

Why is trade with communist Cuba bad? Because it lowers our trade potential with China and Vietnam

A conservative, his mother, a ten year old kid, and Santa Claus are walking down the street. They see a $100 dollar bill lying on the ground. Who gets it?

Answer: The conservative. Santa Claus doesn't exist, so he doesn't have a chance. And the conservative, seeing an opportunity to get his hands on $100, punches the ten year old in the face and pushes his mother in front of a speeding car. By default, the conservative is the only one left, so he gets the money.

Q: Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, a Compassionate Conservative and a Mean Conservative are walking down the street. They see a $100 bill lying on the ground. Who gets it?

A: The Mean Conservative, naturally. The other three are fictional.

chilout

[ColdNoMore]

What do Republicans and porn stars have in common? They are experts in switching positions in front of a camera.

What do you get when you offer a member of the Tea Party a penny for his thoughts? Change.

What the difference between a Conservative and the rear end of a horse? I don't know either.

Why should Creationism be taught in schools? Because it leaves less time to teach Global warming and tobacco's link to cancer

Why is trade with communist Cuba bad? Because it lowers our trade potential with China and Vietnam

A conservative, his mother, a ten year old kid, and Santa Claus are walking down the street. They see a $100 dollar bill lying on the ground. Who gets it?

Answer: The conservative. Santa Claus doesn't exist, so he doesn't have a chance. And the conservative, seeing an opportunity to get his hands on $100, punches the ten year old in the face and pushes his mother in front of a speeding car. By default, the conservative is the only one left, so he gets the money.

Q: Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, a Compassionate Conservative and a Mean Conservative are walking down the street. They see a $100 bill lying on the ground. Who gets it?

A: The Mean Conservative, naturally. The other three are fictional.

chilout

:1rotfl:


:BigApplause:

[MDLNB]

What do Republicans and porn stars have in common? They are experts in switching positions in front of a camera.

What do you get when you offer a member of the Tea Party a penny for his thoughts? Change.

What the difference between a Conservative and the rear end of a horse? I don't know either.

Why should Creationism be taught in schools? Because it leaves less time to teach Global warming and tobacco's link to cancer

Why is trade with communist Cuba bad? Because it lowers our trade potential with China and Vietnam

A conservative, his mother, a ten year old kid, and Santa Claus are walking down the street. They see a $100 dollar bill lying on the ground. Who gets it?

Answer: The conservative. Santa Claus doesn't exist, so he doesn't have a chance. And the conservative, seeing an opportunity to get his hands on $100, punches the ten year old in the face and pushes his mother in front of a speeding car. By default, the conservative is the only one left, so he gets the money.

Q: Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, a Compassionate Conservative and a Mean Conservative are walking down the street. They see a $100 bill lying on the ground. Who gets it?

A: The Mean Conservative, naturally. The other three are fictional.

chilout

A lame attempt at humor. Especially when all of them are just pathetic attempts to copy the jokes about liberals. Like I have said before, liberals can not think on their own and need someone else to do everytihng for them. In this case, they needed to borrow jokes because they have no humor. But, the effort is worthy of mention. Good for you for making a lame attempt.

[MDLNB]

How do you confuse a Liberal? You don’t. They’re born that way.

This one is not PC and will surely result in crying of PC violation: Why is it good to have a Democrat passenger? You can park in the handicap zone.

What’s the difference between Elvis and a smart Liberal? Elvis has been sighted.

A Democrat died and a friend went around collecting for a fund for his funeral. A woman was asked to donate ten dollars.
“Ten dollars?” she said. “It only takes ten dollars to bury a Democrat? Here’s a hundred – go bury 10 of them!”

What is the Democrat doing when he holds his hands tightly over his ears? Trying to hold on to a thought.

[Don Baldwin]

.......and just as a point of clarification, the whole notion of what is a liberal and what is a conservative has changed dramatically since the days of Theodore Roosevelt. Abraham Lincoln, a Republican, was a liberal in political thought because he opposed slavery. Teddy Roosevelt was the "trust buster" who favored government regulation, which made him a flaming liberal in his time. He actually ran for POTUS later in life under the Progressive Party nomination.

No he didn't, he wanted them ALL sent back to Africa, Liberia specifically, Liberia was CREATED as a country to repatriate slaves to Africa. He ONLY "freed" the slaves in the southern Confederate states, not the north. He said we'd NEVER live as equals.

He used slavery as a political issue.

[autumnspring]

.......and just as a point of clarification, the whole notion of what is a liberal and what is a conservative has changed dramatically since the days of Theodore Roosevelt. Abraham Lincoln, a Republican, was a liberal in political thought because he opposed slavery. Teddy Roosevelt was the "trust buster" who favored government regulation, which made him a flaming liberal in his time. He actually ran for POTUS later in life under the Progressive Party nomination.

In the time of Abe Lincoln while he was a republican at that time the Republican party was the party of working people and the Democratic party was the party of the wealthy. Like TRUMP Lincoln was not expected to win.
As to slavery. Lincoln's letters show that his main goal was not to free the slaves but to keep the nation united.
We are TAUGHT? in POLITICALLY CORRECTED HISTORY that Lincoln freed the slaves with the emancipation proclamation. If, you check the facts you will discover that at the time Lincoln delivered the emancipation proclamation he was not really the president of the southern states, Jefferson Davis was. One third of the southern population was slaves. Lincoln had hoped to insight the slaves to revolt causing the south to take troops out of battle to control the slaves. The slave revolt did not happen. A truly great political act by Lincoln was to make Thanksgiving a national holiday.
No one could object to giving thanks and it showed that the president had the power to govern all states.

It is important that we have never had the rise of a dictator, such as Hitler or Mussolini rise to power. That is, according to me, due to our system of separation of powers. The closest to rise to dictatorial powers were-LINCOLN, FDR AND OBAMA. Several of FDR's bills were fond to be unconstitutional by the supreme court.
Obama's overstepping presidential power will be reversed by the new administration. Lincoln was of course reversed by a southern assassin. Lincoln who demonstrated a liberal, kindly view toward the south was replaced by Johnson who wanted vengeance. Sadly, we have still not resolved the issues of the civil war-race relations and states rights vs a federal, centralized government.

[Sandtrap328]

Q: How do you break a Conservative's finger?

A: Punch him in the nose.

[MDLNB]

How do you keep a Democrat busy? Write ‘Please turn over’ on both sides of a piece of paper.


Why did the Liberal have blisters on his lips? From trying to blow out lightbulbs.

A Democrat found a magic genie’s lamp and rubbed it. The genie said, “I will grant you one wish.” He said, “I wish I were smarter”. So the genie made him a Republican.

What’s the difference between a Liberal and a sack of manure? The sack.

[looneycat]

You got that quote from a letter to the editor in today's (Tues 1/3) Daily Sun didn't you. It actually is "If you want to anger a conservative, tell him the truth". If you want to anger a liberal, tell him the truth"

It was a good letter. Can you imagine back in the early 1900's they were saying the same thing about liberals as they continue to say today. You just can't help some people and apparently this applies to liberals.

Personal Best Regards:

actually it is a failing of conservatives who never change their tune despite its lack of veracity (truth)

[MDLNB]

actually it is a failing of conservatives who never change their tune despite its lack of veracity (truth)

Well, it's a lot safer than you liberals and your willingness to listen to and believe anything a libtard politician tells you.
You call yourselves progressives and yet embrace the old, failed socialism. And you have the audacity to call us regressives.

[rubicon]

Dear Fellow Conservatives:

You are witnessing the actionable truth to the Roosevelt's quote right here on this thread

Personal Best Regards:

[Cedwards38]

No he didn't, he wanted them ALL sent back to Africa, Liberia specifically, Liberia was CREATED as a country to repatriate slaves to Africa. He ONLY "freed" the slaves in the southern Confederate states, not the north. He said we'd NEVER live as equals.

He used slavery as a political issue.

Really? Check out these pesky quotes from Lincoln before he became POTUS.

"Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil, having due regard for its actual existence amongst us and the difficulties of getting rid of it in any satisfactory way, and to all the constitutional obligations which have been thrown about it; but, nevertheless, desire a policy that looks to the prevention of it as a wrong, and looks hopefully to the time when as a wrong it may come to an end." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume III, "Lincoln-Douglas Debate at Galesburg" (October 7, 1858), p. 226.

"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume III, "Letter To Henry L. Pierce and Others" (April 6, 1858), p. 376.

"Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it, is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks, and throes, and convulsions must ceaselessly follow." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume II, "Speech at Peoria, Illinois" (October 16, 1854), p. 271.

"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume II, (August 1, 1858?), p. 532.

"I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any abolitionist." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume II, "Speech at Chicago, Illinois" (July 10, 1858), p. 492.

" So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume II, "Fragment on Slavery" (April 1, 1854?), p. 222.

"I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume II, "Speech at Peoria, Illinois" (October 16, 1854), p. 255.

"If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume II, "Speech at Chicago, Illinois" (July 10, 1858), p. 501

"We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume II, "Speech at Springfield, Illinois" (October 4, 1854), p. 242.

And maybe you've heard of The Emancipation Proclamation?

You might want to call your history teacher and see if you can get your money back, but you'd make a great political commentator for FOX News?

[Cedwards38]

In the time of Abe Lincoln while he was a republican at that time the Republican party was the party of working people and the Democratic party was the party of the wealthy. Like TRUMP Lincoln was not expected to win.
As to slavery. Lincoln's letters show that his main goal was not to free the slaves but to keep the nation united.
We are TAUGHT? in POLITICALLY CORRECTED HISTORY that Lincoln freed the slaves with the emancipation proclamation. If, you check the facts you will discover that at the time Lincoln delivered the emancipation proclamation he was not really the president of the southern states, Jefferson Davis was. One third of the southern population was slaves. Lincoln had hoped to insight the slaves to revolt causing the south to take troops out of battle to control the slaves. The slave revolt did not happen. A truly great political act by Lincoln was to make Thanksgiving a national holiday.
No one could object to giving thanks and it showed that the president had the power to govern all states.

It is important that we have never had the rise of a dictator, such as Hitler or Mussolini rise to power. That is, according to me, due to our system of separation of powers. The closest to rise to dictatorial powers were-LINCOLN, FDR AND OBAMA. Several of FDR's bills were fond to be unconstitutional by the supreme court.
Obama's overstepping presidential power will be reversed by the new administration. Lincoln was of course reversed by a southern assassin. Lincoln who demonstrated a liberal, kindly view toward the south was replaced by Johnson who wanted vengeance. Sadly, we have still not resolved the issues of the civil war-race relations and states rights vs a federal, centralized government.

The Union never accepted and endorsed the secession of the Southern States. Jefferson Davis was a rebel, who other rebels declared to be their President. We could vote to secede The Villages from the Union and call you President, but that wouldn't make it so. There was only on POTUS during the Civil War, and that was Lincoln.

[MDLNB]

Really? Check out these pesky quotes from Lincoln before he became POTUS.

"Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil, having due regard for its actual existence amongst us and the difficulties of getting rid of it in any satisfactory way, and to all the constitutional obligations which have been thrown about it; but, nevertheless, desire a policy that looks to the prevention of it as a wrong, and looks hopefully to the time when as a wrong it may come to an end." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume III, "Lincoln-Douglas Debate at Galesburg" (October 7, 1858), p. 226.

"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume III, "Letter To Henry L. Pierce and Others" (April 6, 1858), p. 376.

"Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it, is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks, and throes, and convulsions must ceaselessly follow." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume II, "Speech at Peoria, Illinois" (October 16, 1854), p. 271.

"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume II, (August 1, 1858?), p. 532.

"I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any abolitionist." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume II, "Speech at Chicago, Illinois" (July 10, 1858), p. 492.

" So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume II, "Fragment on Slavery" (April 1, 1854?), p. 222.

"I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume II, "Speech at Peoria, Illinois" (October 16, 1854), p. 255.

"If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume II, "Speech at Chicago, Illinois" (July 10, 1858), p. 501

"We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume II, "Speech at Springfield, Illinois" (October 4, 1854), p. 242.

And maybe you've heard of The Emancipation Proclamation?

You might want to call your history teacher and see if you can get your money back, but you'd make a great political commentator for FOX News?

Perhaps you might want to refresh yourself on the origination of Liberia. I believe you will find that there is bit of Lincoln's hands involved.

From Wikipedia:

"One view (known to scholars as the "lullaby" theory) is that Lincoln adopted colonization for Freedmen in order to make his Emancipation Proclamation politically acceptable.[66] This view has been challenged with new evidence of the Lincoln administration's attempts to colonize freedmen in British Honduras after the Emancipation Proclamation took effect on January 1, 1863.[66]"

"In December 1862, Lincoln signed a contract with businessman Bernard Kock to establish a colony on the Ile à Vache near Haiti. 453 freed slaves departed for the island from Fort Monroe, Virginia"

"In addition to Panama and Haiti, Mitchell's office also oversaw attempts at colonization in British Honduras and elsewhere in the British West Indies. Lincoln believed that by dealing with the comparatively stable British Government, he could avoid some of the problems that plagued his earlier attempts at colonization with private interests."

================
Book: Lincoln sought to deport freed slaves - Washington Times (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/feb/9/book-lincoln-sought-to-deport-freed-slaves/)

"The Great Emancipator was almost the Great Colonizer: Newly released documents show that to a greater degree than historians had previously known, President Lincoln laid the groundwork to ship freed slaves overseas to help prevent racial strife in the U.S.

Just after he issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, Lincoln authorized plans to pursue a freedmen’s settlement in present-day Belize and another in Guyana, both colonial possessions of Great Britain at the time, said Phillip W. Magness, one of the researchers who uncovered the new documents.

Historians have debated how seriously Lincoln took colonization efforts, but Mr. Magness said the story he uncovered, to be published next week in a book, “Colonization After Emancipation: Lincoln and the Movement for Black Resettlement,” shows the president didn’t just flirt with the idea, as historians had previously known, but that he personally pursued it for some time."

[Don Baldwin]

Really? Check out these pesky quotes from Lincoln before he became POTUS.

"Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil, having due regard for its actual existence amongst us and the difficulties of getting rid of it in any satisfactory way, and to all the constitutional obligations which have been thrown about it; but, nevertheless, desire a policy that looks to the prevention of it as a wrong, and looks hopefully to the time when as a wrong it may come to an end." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume III, "Lincoln-Douglas Debate at Galesburg" (October 7, 1858), p. 226.

"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume III, "Letter To Henry L. Pierce and Others" (April 6, 1858), p. 376.

"Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it, is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks, and throes, and convulsions must ceaselessly follow." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume II, "Speech at Peoria, Illinois" (October 16, 1854), p. 271.

"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume II, (August 1, 1858?), p. 532.

"I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any abolitionist." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume II, "Speech at Chicago, Illinois" (July 10, 1858), p. 492.

" So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume II, "Fragment on Slavery" (April 1, 1854?), p. 222.

"I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume II, "Speech at Peoria, Illinois" (October 16, 1854), p. 255.

"If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume II, "Speech at Chicago, Illinois" (July 10, 1858), p. 501

"We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume II, "Speech at Springfield, Illinois" (October 4, 1854), p. 242.

And maybe you've heard of The Emancipation Proclamation?

You might want to call your history teacher and see if you can get your money back, but you'd make a great political commentator for FOX News?

“My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery.”

"I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality.”

“You and we are different races. We have between us a broader difference than exists between almost any other two races. Whether it is right or wrong I need not discuss, but this physical difference is a great disadvantage to us both, as I think your race suffers very greatly, many of them, by living among us, while ours suffers from your presence. In a word, we suffer on each side. If this is admitted, it affords a reason at least why we should be separated.”

“And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.”

“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races.”

“I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.”

“I have never had the least apprehension that I or my friends would marry negroes if there was no law to keep them from it, but as Judge Douglas and his friends seem to be in great apprehension that they might, if there were no law to keep them from it, I give him the most solemn pledge that I will to the very last stand by the law of this State, which forbids the marrying of white people with negroes.”

“There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people to the idea of indiscriminate amalgamation of the white and black races … A separation of the races is the only perfect preventive of amalgamation, but as an immediate separation is impossible, the next best thing is to keep them apart where they are not already together. If white and black people never get together in Kansas, they will never mix blood in Kansas…”

“Our republican system was meant for a homogeneous people. As long as blacks continue to live with the whites they constitute a threat to the national life. Family life may also collapse and the increase of mixed breed bastards may some day challenge the supremacy of the white man.”

lincoln pro slavery quotes - Google Search (https://www.google.com/search?q=lincoln+pro+slavery+quotes&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8)

As for the EP..."The Emancipation Proclamation didn't actually free all of the slaves. Since Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation as a military measure, it didn't apply to border slave states like Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri, all of which had remained loyal to the Union."

The states had the RIGHT to secede...Lincoln illegally prevented it.

Slavery ONLY ended because of mechanization...NO other reason. Machines ended slavery.

The Union never accepted and endorsed the secession of the Southern States. Jefferson Davis was a rebel, who other rebels declared to be their President. We could vote to secede The Villages from the Union and call you President, but that wouldn't make it so. There was only on POTUS during the Civil War, and that was Lincoln.

The villages isn't a state. FL has/had the right to secede...it was part of the states agreement to sign the Constitution. Lincoln illegally prevented it.

[dirtbanker]

Looks like Cedwards38 got his a$$ buried with a google search...

[MDLNB]

Lincoln hated slavery but he also felt that the two races could not coexist in this country equally. That's why he was in favor of moving blacks to other countries in an attempt to colonize them elsewhere. Lincoln was just as racist by today's standards as anyone else in that time period. So, let's tear down all the statues, memorials and landmarks that have anything to do with our early history so that it does not offend a libtard.