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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 704
AUTHOR: Abraham Lincoln (1809–65)
QUOTATION: I know that the LORD is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the LORD’S side.
ATTRIBUTION: President ABRAHAM LINCOLN.—Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln, p. 282 (1867).

Reply to a clergyman who said to Lincoln that he hoped “the Lord was on our side.”

See note at No. 731.
SUBJECTS: God