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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I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
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It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
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Every man over forty is responsible for his face.
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Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. He who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or decisions possible or impossible to execute.
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It behooves us, then, to humble ourselves before the Offended power, to confess our national sins, and pray for clemency and forgiveness.
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It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
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Sorrow comes to all...Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now realize that you will ever feel better and yet you are sure to be happy again.
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The world will little note nor long remember what we say here.
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Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed.
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Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present... we must think anew and act anew.
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And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
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In the end it is not the years in your life that count. It is the life in your years
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My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter