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
war military eye
Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy...
long done slavery
Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be done again.
education may importance
That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.
freedom government public-opinion
Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.
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It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.
change freedom father
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
motivational judging political
If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
men doe deeds
Never stir up litigation, a worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this, who can be more nearly a fiend than he who habitually overhauls the register of deeds in search of defects in titles, whereon to stir up strife, and put money in his pocket?
thinking fit born
Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?
civilization alcohol tragedy
The legalized liquor business is the tragedy of our civilization. Alcohol is the greatest and most blighting curse of our modern civilization. The liquor seller is simply and only a privileged malefactor - a criminal.
wise father pursuit-of-happiness
Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity should look up again at the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began....
fighting men bees
When I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he's fighting a swarm of bees.
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I have never united myself to any church because I found difficulty in giving my assent without mental reservation to the long, complicated statements of Christian doctrine which characterize the articles of belief and the usual confession of faith.
government might election
We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.