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
congress-and-the-president giving free-spirit
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
inspirational life motivational
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
integrity honor
Honor is better than honors.
trust liars hate
If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.
peace war military
There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.
say-anything littles produce
I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.
party government hands
[I]f the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting, the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased, to be their own rulers, having, to that extent, practically resigned their Government, into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
congress-and-the-president giving civil-war
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.
inspirational world might
It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.
congress-and-the-president light honor
The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.
fear ambiguity explanation
I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.
christians church denied disrespect member religion spoken truth
That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.
giving-up russia crowns
The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves.
friendship attitude enemy
President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. "Why do you try to make friends of them?" asked an associate. "You should try to destroy them." "Am I not destroying my enemies," Lincoln gently replied, "when I make them my friends?"