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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No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
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No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all
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Every man over forty is responsible for his face.
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''A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal.'' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.
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I hold that while a man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.
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A right result, at this time, will be worth more to the world, than ten times the men, and ten times the money.
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And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?
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When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government-that is despotism.
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What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.
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As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.
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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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Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.