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
government self voice
The master not only governs the slave without his consent, but he governs him by a set of rules altogether different from those which he prescribes for himself. Allow ALL the governed an equal voice in the government, and that, and that only, is self-government.
men self white-man
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.
religious selfish thinking
The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.
selfish mistake men
So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.
god selfishness helping
I can only say that I have acted upon my best convictions, without selfishness or malice, and that by the help of God I shall continue to do so.
men hours-in-the-day self
It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day.
self grace unbroken
Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.
men justice selfishness
Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
long self-love alcohol
It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing.
self-esteem thinking fit
Seriously, I do not think I fit for the presidency.
selfish adversity light
The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.
men justice selfishness
Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature-oppositi on to it is in his love of justice.
act destroyer drives freedom sheep shepherd thanks wolf
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.
reality shadow tree
The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.