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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Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time.
adversity doe frail
Adversity does not make us frail; it only shows us how frail we are.
men doe deeds
Never stir up litigation, a worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this, who can be more nearly a fiend than he who habitually overhauls the register of deeds in search of defects in titles, whereon to stir up strife, and put money in his pocket?
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Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg.
animal doe animal-rights
He who sees cruelty and does nothing about it is himself cruel.
dog doe killing
Killing the dog does not cure the bite.
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You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.
men want doe
It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want.
philosophical public-opinion doe
No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.
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He who does something at the head of one Regiment, will eclipse him who does nothing at the head of a hundred.
law people doe
A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.
people doe minorities
A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.
men doe he-man
The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.
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The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.