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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The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
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If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.
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In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement.
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Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
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You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature-oppositi on to it is in his love of justice.
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If we know where we are and something about how we got there, we might see where we are trending - and if the outcomes which lie naturally in our course are unacceptable, to make timely change.
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Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.
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I have had so many evidences of [God's] direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will, that I cannot doubt that this power comes from above.
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I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.
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The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
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Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.