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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Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
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The mystic cords of memory stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone throughout the land
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Having thus chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts.
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Tell me what brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.
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People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
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It has long been a grave question whether any government, not too strong for the liberties of its people, can be strong enough to maintain its existence in great emergencies
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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual manners for the public good
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I must run the machine as I find it.
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Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people
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It is my ambition and desire to so administer the affairs of the government while I remain President that if at the end I have lost every other Friend on earth I shall at least have one friend remaining and that one shall be down inside me
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I regard no man as poor who has a godly mother.
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No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
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The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.