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
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A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... He will assume control of your cities, states and nations. He is going to move in and take over your churches, schools, universities, and corporations ... The fate of humanity is in his hands.
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War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.
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There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end.
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My God! My God! What will the country say?
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I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country.
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It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives.
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You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.
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I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.
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As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from - so must it be with a government.
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Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.
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All that harms labor is treason to America.
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I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that "it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams."
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One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.
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It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.