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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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual manners for the public good
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For people who like that kind of a book that is the kind of book they will like
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If I am killed, I can die but once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again
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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax.
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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.
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I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
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I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me
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I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it
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I can not deny that all may be swept away. Broken by it, I, too, may be; bow to it I never will. The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause that we believe to be just; it shall not deter me.
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Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed.
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I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end