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
forgiveness fighting past
But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.
happiness onward-and-upward political
Let us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within us, we shall secure an individual, social and political prosperity and happiness, whose course shall be onward and upward, and which, while the earth endures, shall not pass away.
abuse factions ifs
If both factions, or neither, shall abuse you, you will probably be about right. Beware of being assailed by one and praised by the other.
race effort common
As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.
giving society capable
Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.
men want doe
It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want.
men opposites would-be
Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.
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All true wisdom is found on T-shirts.
success want faces
What are you gonna do for a face when the baboon wants his ass back?
atheism facts lord
I have neither time nor disposition to enter into discussion with the Friend, and end this occasion by suggesting for her consideration the question whether, if it be true that the Lord has appointed me to do the work she has indicated, it is not probable that he would have communicated knowledge of the fact to me as well as to her.
christian fighting wife
There was the strangest combination of church influence against me. Baker is a Campbellite; and therefore, as I suppose with few exceptions, got all of that Church. My wife had some relations in the Presbyterian churches, and some in the Episcopal churches; and therefore, wherever it would tell, I was set down as either one or the other, while it was everywhere contended that no Christian ought to vote for me because I belonged to no Church, and was suspected of being a Deist and had talked of fighting a duel.
atheism fool messages
Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.
thinking stranger mets
Think of strangers as friends you not met yet.
men lost
No man ever got lost on a straight road.