Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln

Born: February 12, 1809

Died: April 15, 1865

Nationality: American

Occupation: President

Biography: Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.

Abraham Lincoln

“The way for a young man to rise, is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that any body wishes to hinder him.”

- Abraham Lincoln

Source/Notes: Letter to William H Herndon (10 July 1848).
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Abraham Lincoln

“The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.”

- Abraham Lincoln

Source/Notes: Letter to Joseph Gillespie (13 July 1849).
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Abraham Lincoln

“The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves.”

- Abraham Lincoln

Source/Notes: Letter to George Robertson (15 August 1855).
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Abraham Lincoln

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

- Abraham Lincoln

Source/Notes: Speech at Bloomington (29 May 1856).
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Abraham Lincoln

“Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. And not to Democrats alone do I make this appeal, but to all who love these great and true principles.”

- Abraham Lincoln

Source/Notes: Speech at Kalamazoo, Michigan, August 27, 1856, Collected Works 1:391.
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Abraham Lincoln

“Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.”

- Abraham Lincoln

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“Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.”

- Abraham Lincoln

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“A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.”

- Abraham Lincoln

Source/Notes: The House Divided speech (1858)
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“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.”

- Abraham Lincoln

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“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.”

- Abraham Lincoln

Source/Notes: Letter to Henry L Pierce and others (6 April 1859).
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“Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of men, I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them.”

- Abraham Lincoln

Source/Notes: Letter to Dr. Theodore Canisius (17 May 1859).
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Abraham Lincoln

“Negro equality! Fudge!! How long, in the government of a God, great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend, and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagougeism as this?”

- Abraham Lincoln

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“I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.”

- Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln

“I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game. Kentucky gone, we can not hold Missouri, nor, as I think, Maryland.”

- Abraham Lincoln

Source/Notes: Letter to Orville Hickman Browning (22 September 1861).
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