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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and perhaps its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy.

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Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

God, Greatest, Leadership, Right, Side, Wisdom

A right result, at this time, will be worth more to the world, than ten times the men, and ten times the money.

Men, World, He Man, Worth, Times

Bad promises are better broken than kept.

Bad, Broken, Kept, Promise, Promises

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Happy, Inspirational, Make, Minds, Motivational, Positive

Accounts of outrages committed by mobs form the every-day news of the times. They have pervaded the country from New England to Louisiana, they are neither peculiar to the eternal snows of the former nor the burning suns of the latter; they are not the creature of climate, neither are they confined to the slaveholding or the non-slaveholding States. Alike they spring up among the pleasure-hunting masters of Southern slaves, and the order-loving citizens of the land of steady habits. Whatever then their cause may be, it is common to the whole country.

Country, Spring, Hunting, Climate, Accounts, Whole

I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.

Favor, People, Race, Voters, War, White

We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

Alarms, Anxiety, Beclouds, Carpe Diem

It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to mean no more than that an army is better directed by a single mind, though inferior, than by two superior ones at variance and cross-purposes with each other.

Army, Mean, Ones, Said, Taken, True

God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

Common, God, Love, Men

The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.

People, Return, Rightly, Trust

Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

Bind, Child, Children, Family, Parenting, Whereby

Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.

Civil War, Continue, Rebellion, Slavery

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.

Experience, Men, Motivational, Taught, Vices

. . . I do not mean to say that this general government is charged with the duty of redressing or preventing all the wrongs in the world; but I do think that it is charged with the duty of preventing and redressing all wrongs which are wrongs to itself.

Government, Mean, Preventing, Redressing, Thinking, World

As a general rule never take your whole fee in advance, nor any more than a small retainer. When fully paid beforehand, you are more than a common mortal if you can feel the same interest in the case, as if something was still in prospect for you, as well as for your client.

Advance, Beforehand, Clients, Common, Fees, Small

Think of strangers as friends you not met yet.

Met, Mets, Stranger, Strangers, Think, Thinking

We believe that the spreading out and perpetuity of the institution of slavery impairs the general welfare. We believe - nay, we know, that that is the only thing that has ever threatened the perpetuity of the Union itself.

Believe, Institution, Slavery, Thing, Unions

I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.

Civil War, Failed, Said, War

With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have a great respect for the semicolin; it's a useful little chap

Feelings, Littles, Matter, People, Say

Public opinion in this country is everything.

Country, Everything, Government, Opinion, Political, Public

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