Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincolnwas the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth12 February 1809
CountryUnited States of America
two government evil
Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two [good and evil].
education book men
I am absent altogether too much to be a suitable instructor for a law-student. When a man has reached the age that Mr. Widner has,and has already been doing for himself, my judgment is, that he reads the books for himself without an instructor. That is precisely the way I came to the law.
education father years
My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.
god errors god-knows-best
We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.
god god-knows-best mortals
Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.
wall years lasts
It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this year as well as last.
men wish slavery
I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.
work race air
In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread"; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour.
dark people political
The political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right.
men answers opinion
We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise him for it. Therefore we must take a man whose opinions are known.
believe wind support
You may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven; you may drag my soul down to the regions of darkness and despair to be tormented forever; but you will never get me to support a measure which I believe to be wrong, although by doing so I may accomplish that which I believe to be right.
patience eggs fowl
We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
money principles moral
Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.
men forever generations
Our strife pertains to ourselves-to the passing generations of men-and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation.