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
political trade
Politics, as a trade, finds most and leaves nearly all dishonest.
decision political politics
He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
motivational judging political
If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
political civil-war trying
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
religious government political
We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.
political together half
Our political problem now is "Can we, as a nation, continue together permanentlyforever--half slave, and half free?" The problem is too mighty for me. May God, in his mercy, superintend the solution.
money political wish
As to your kind wishes for myself, allow me to say I can not enter the ring on the money basis--first, because, in the main, it iswrong; and secondly, I have not, and can not get, the money. I say, in the main, the use of money is wrong; but for certain objects, in a political contest, the use of some, is both right, and indispensable.
dark people political
The political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right.
hypocrite political slavery
We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.
country government political
Public opinion in this country is everything.
time men political
The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
happiness onward-and-upward political
Let us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within us, we shall secure an individual, social and political prosperity and happiness, whose course shall be onward and upward, and which, while the earth endures, shall not pass away.
law political reverence
Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.
political voters qualified
It is not the qualified voters, but the qualified voters who choose to vote, that constitute political power.