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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Without the assistance of that Divine Being...I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.
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...Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man-this race and that race and the other race being inferior, and therefore they must be placed in and inferior position...Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal.
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Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.
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Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.
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You can please some of the people some of the time all of the people some of the time some of the people all of the time but you can never please all of the people all of the time.
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I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.
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If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would do that. I have here stated my purpose according to my official duty, and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men, everywhere, could be free.
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We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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Commitment is what transforms a promise into a reality... Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism.
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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
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When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.