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 cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence.
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As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and Laws, let every American pledge his life, his property, and his sacred honor;-let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty.
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Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.
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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
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I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
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Character is the tree, reputation is the shadow.
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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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You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
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Let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty.
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The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.
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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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When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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Yet, if God wills that (this war) continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be repaid by another drawn with the sword,
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You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.