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
laughter mind awful
Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts.
laughter real exercise
A good, real, unrestrained, hearty laugh is a sort of glorified internal massage, performed rapidly and automatically. It manipulates and revitalizes corners and unexplored crannies of the system that are unresponsive to most other exercise methods. With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
laughter joyous evergreens
Laughter is the joyous universal evergreen of life!
happiness smile laughter
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
again circumstance combined happen invariably produce shall
What has once happened, will invariably happen again, when the same circumstances which combined to produce it, shall again combine in the same way
best hope last lose nobody save shall
We shall nobody save or meanly lose the last best hope
believe heart would-be
Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts.
divine-revelation judgment lord
The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
mother father writing
I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps I should say. My mother, who died in my tenth year, was of a family of the name of Hanks.... My father ... removed from Kentucky to ... Indiana, in my eighth year.... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up.... Of course when I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher ... but that was all.
integrity love-yourself winning
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.
jealousy men may
Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her
struggle government office
If ever this free people, if this Government itself is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this incessant human wriggle and struggle for office, which is but a way to live without work.
mean thinking way
I think that God means that we shall do more than we have yet done in furtherance of his plans and he will open the way for our doing it.
war gingerbread earth
I don't s'pose anybody on earth likes gingerbread better'n I do-and gets less'n I do.