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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Anybody will do for you, but not for me.
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When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.'
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
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A house divided against itself cannot stand.
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No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
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A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
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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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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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Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
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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.
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The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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The United States government must not undertake to run the Churches. When an individual, in the Church or out of it, becomes dangerous to the public interest he must be checked.