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
peace fighting willing
. . . peace is a thing which a person must be willing to fight for . . .
trust people return
The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.
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Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief.
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No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.
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Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed had not labor first existed.
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Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.
wise believe government
I believe each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruit of his labor, so far as it in no wise interferes with any other mans rightsthat each community, as a State, has a right to do exactly as it pleases with all the concerns within that State that interfere with the right of no other State, and that the general government, upon principle, has no right to interfere with anything other than that general class of things that does concern the whole.
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I have got you together to hear what I have written down. I do not wish your advice about the main matterfor that I have determined for myself.
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Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.
toes cry motive
Ready are we all to cry out and ascribe motives when our toes are pinched.
despair temperance teach
Teach hope to all, despair to none.
money political wish
As to your kind wishes for myself, allow me to say I can not enter the ring on the money basis--first, because, in the main, it iswrong; and secondly, I have not, and can not get, the money. I say, in the main, the use of money is wrong; but for certain objects, in a political contest, the use of some, is both right, and indispensable.
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Now if you should hear any one say that Lincoln don't [sic] want to go to Congress, I wish you as a personal friend of mine, wouldtell him that you have reason to believe he is mistaken.
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What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?