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
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Four score and seven days is too long between massages
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Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men
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The severest justice may not always be the best policy
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Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
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My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
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I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff.
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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?
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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.
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I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia.
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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!
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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.
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Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed