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
banner completion successful
The banner signified the successful completion of the ship's deployment,
good lies-and-lying man memory successful
No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.
successful government two
Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled, the successful establishing and the successful administering of it. One still remains, its successful maintenance against a formidable internal attempt to overthrow it.
successful lectures autobiography
I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.
successful men voting
Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.
country perseverance successful
I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me...
successful peaceful bullets
Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be no successful appeal back to bullets.
successful should-have government
That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now, is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed, and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all, to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.
military successful men
Peace will come soon to stay, and so come as to be worth keeping in all future time. It will then have proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure their cases and pay the costs.
alike assure freedom giving honorable
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -- honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.
cannot good law lest oblige plead policy prove
In law it is good policy never to plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you cannot
government ought people
In all that people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere.
aircraft america country economic lack landing plan security states united wait
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.
ambition became crib curse election feed highest hungry persistent prey sooner whose
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