Dec 5, 2008
We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise.- Abraham Lincoln Attribution: Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), U.S. president. letter to Eliza P. Gurney, Sep. 4, 1864. Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 7, p. 535, Rutgers University Press (1953, 1990).
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