Quotes by James Ford Rhodes

“On the first day of January, 1863, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward and forever free. In the case of the loyal slave States he declared again for his policy of compensated emancipation and colonization of the freed negroes, and said that he should in due time recommend compensation also for the loss of their slaves to loyal citizens of the States in rebellion.”

“THE GREAT factor in the destruction of slavery was the election of Abraham Lincoln as President in 1860”

“The crisis was like one described by Thucydides when the meaning of words had no longer the same relation to things. Reckless daring was held to be loyal courage; prudent delay was the excuse of a coward; moderation was the disguise of unmanly weakness.”