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 favors tariffs
I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff.
war government long
Negro equality, Fudge!! How long in the Government of a God great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagoguism as this?
strong war fighting
The time has come when I am for everybody fighting the rebels. Let Indians fight them; let the Negroes fight them; and if you have got any strong-legged jackasses in Iwoa that can kick rebels to death, they have my hearty consent.
war slavery littles
I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia.
war civil-war
Bring me Longstreet's head on a platter and the war will be over
war ohio glory
Glory to God in the highest, Ohio has saved the Nation.
war book littles
So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!
time war party
The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party - and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose.
words-of-wisdom action human-nature
Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed
party past hands
Senator [Stephen] Douglas is of world-wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who have been of his party for years past, have been looking upon him as certainly, at no distant day, to be the President of the United States. They have seen in his round, jolly, fruitful face, post offices, land offices, marshalships, and cabinet appointments, chargeships and foreign missions, bursting and sprouting out in wonderful exuberance ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands.
attitude stay-positive our-words
Our attitude is more honest and more consistent than our words.
friendship enemy president
When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends."
past problem
As the problems are new, we must disenthrall ourselves from the past.
life past men
Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.