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
country freedom 4th-of-july
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
inspirational motivational positive
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
family mothers-day mom
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
memories father pride
I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.
links principles divine
If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.
criticism would-be circumstances
Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.
god patriotic divorce
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
inspirational life motivational
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
wisdom freedom humor
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
law government justice
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
business character tree
Character is the tree, reputation is the shadow.
anxiety anticipation
...Anxiety beclouds the future...
christian religious war
At the beginning of the war, and for some time, the use of colored troops was not contemplated; and how the change of purpose was wrought, I will not now take time to explain. Upon a clear conviction of duty I resolved to turn that element of strength to account; and I am responsible for it to the American people, to the christian world, to history, and on my final account to God.
anger charity malice
With malice towards none; with charity for all....