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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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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That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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Only events and not a man's exertions in his own behalf, can make a President
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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits that strict justice.
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The workingmen are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the more numerous
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It is better to remain quiet and be thought a fool...
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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
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If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
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No. The mule has just four legs. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it one.
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Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world.