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
wise men law
Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.
hard-work men reason
The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous...
hard-work comfort source
Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.
hypocrite political slavery
We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.
believe purpose slavery
I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."
perseverance government duty
I shall not do more than I can, and I shall do all I can to save the government, which is my sworn duty as well as my personal inclination. I shall do nothing in malice. What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing.
country perseverance successful
I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me...
confidence perseverance done
If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.
essence ideas liberty
No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.
government people democracy
Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".
depression men cheerful
I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better, it appears to me.
military giving civil-war
With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.
bible god religious
And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God ... and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.
religious mean giving
Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result.