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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You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
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You can't help the poor by being one of them.
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I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration.
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I regard no man as poor who has a godly mother.
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You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.
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In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.
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In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -- honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.
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In law it is good policy never to plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you cannot
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In all that people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere.
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I know something about aircraft carriers. And I can't wait to tell this country that landing on an aircraft carrier doesn't make up for the lack of an economic plan or a security plan for the United States of America.
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The banner signified the successful completion of the ship's deployment,
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These office-seekers are a curse to the country; no sooner was my election certain, than I became the prey of hundreds of hungry persistent applicants for office, whose highest ambition is to feed at the Government's crib
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I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free.
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I'm sorry I wrote such a long letter. I did not have the time to write a short one.