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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You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
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I regard no man as poor who has a godly mother.
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In times like these men should utter nothing for which they would not be willingly responsible through time and in eternity.
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I'm sorry I wrote such a long letter. I did not have the time to write a short one.
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I must run the machine as I find it.
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If the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court...the people will have ceased to be their own rulers.
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These office-seekers are a curse to the country; no sooner was my election certain, than I became the prey of hundreds of hungry persistent applicants for office, whose highest ambition is to feed at the Government's crib
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If people see the Capitol going on, it is a sign we intend the Union shall go on
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If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg.
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If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a horse have? Four, calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg
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If you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him little, that little let him enjoy.
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If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.
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If you collect the signatures of all persons who are no less distinguised than I, you will have a very undistinguishing mass of names.
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In the end it is not the years in your life that count. It is the life in your years