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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I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.
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I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
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With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.
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Care for him who shall have borne the battle
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The Almighty has His own purposes.
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If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
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It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
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In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.
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As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you.
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The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty