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
thinking men atheism
I think I stand where that man stands.
prayer atheism decree
What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.
war boys simple
Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert? I think that in such a cse to silence the agitator and save the boy is not only constitutional but withal a great mercy.
war blood history
It must now atone in blood for its complicity in wickedness.
sleep passion ideas
I could not sleep when I got on the hunt for an idea, until I had caught it. This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck with me.
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I would rather be assassinated than see a single star removed from the American flag.
behind-you turns persons
When you make it to the top, turn and reach down for the person behind you.
political voters qualified
It is not the qualified voters, but the qualified voters who choose to vote, that constitute political power.
enemy world friends-and-enemies
The world shall know that I will keep my faith to friends and enemies, come what will.
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Did Stanton say I was a damned fool? Then I dare say I must be one, for Stanton is generally right and he always says what he means.
mean government admitting
I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage who pay taxes or bear arms, by no means excluding females.
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And you are entirely free from head-ache? That is good -- good -- considering it is the first spring you have been free from it since we were acquainted. I am afraid you will get so well, and fat, and young, as to be wanting to marry again.
law principles negative
The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers.
believe silly men
You say men ought to be hung for the way they are executing the law; I say the way it is being executed is quite as good as any of its antecedents. It is being executed in the precise way which was intended from the first, else why does no Nebraska man express astonishment or condemnation? Poor Reeder is the only public man who has been silly enough to believe that anything like fairness was ever intended, and he has been bravely undeceived.