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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Having thus chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts.
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I never trusted a man who never smoked or drank.
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If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.
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The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
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The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.
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We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
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Let us renew our trust in god, and go forward without fear.
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If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.
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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.
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The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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The United States government must not undertake to run the Churches. When an individual, in the Church or out of it, becomes dangerous to the public interest he must be checked.
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I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views
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The world will little note nor long remember what we say here.
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The workingmen are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the more numerous