Don't apologize...It's a tricky phrase. Te amo means I love you. It's used in cases of very deep, passionate love, for example: the mushy gushy love you see on soap operas. Amo is the present tense yo form of the verb amar - to love. Te is direct object pronoun meaning you. Te + amo = te amo = I love you.
Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, 1865. On March 4, 1865, Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office for President of the United States for the second time. On that occasion, with the end of the Civil War in sight, he gave one of the most famous speeches in American presidential history.
Lincoln's March 4, 1861, inaugural address declared that his administration would not initiate a civil war. Speaking directly to the Southern States, he reaffirmed, I have no purpose, directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery in the United States where it exists.