In my opinion the religion that makes men rebel and fight against their government is not the genuine article, nor is the religion the right sort which reconciles them to the idea of eating their bread in the sweat of other men's faces. It is not the kind to get to heaven on.


As quoted in Recollections of Abraham Lincoln, 1847-1865 (1895), by Ward Hill Lamon, p. 90


In my opinion the religion that makes men rebel and fight against their government is not the genuine article, nor is the religion the right sort...

In my opinion the religion that makes men rebel and fight against their government is not the genuine article, nor is the religion the right sort...

In my opinion the religion that makes men rebel and fight against their government is not the genuine article, nor is the religion the right sort...

In my opinion the religion that makes men rebel and fight against their government is not the genuine article, nor is the religion the right sort...