"...I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right (not meaning GOP). But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side."
source: The Inner Life of Abraham Lincoln: Six Months at the White House by Francis B. Carpenter (Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, 1995), p. 282. Also, Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by Ward Hill Lamon (Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, 1994), p. 91.
