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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Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.
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Whether you look for the good or look for the bad in a person, you'll find it." A. Lincoln
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I turn, then, and look to the American people and to that God who has never forsaken them.
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I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never espouse their quarrels on either side. My sincere wish is that both sides will allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only.
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There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.
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Those who look for the bad in people will surely find 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.
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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.
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I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views
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The world will little note nor long remember what we say here.
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The workingmen are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the more numerous
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Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. He who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or decisions possible or impossible to execute.
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Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world.