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Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th president of the United States (1861–1865). Lincoln led the nation through its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis in the American Civil War. He preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the U.S. economy. Lincoln was born in poverty in a log cabin and was raised on the frontier primarily in Indiana. He was self-educated and became a lawyer, Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator, and U.S. Congressman from Illinois. In 1849 he returned to his law practice but became vexed by the opening of additional lands to slavery as a result of the Kansas–Nebraska Act. He reentered politics in 1854, becoming a leader in the new Republican Party and he reached a national audience in the 1858 debates against Stephen Douglas. Lincoln ran for President in 1860, sweeping the North in victory. He won reelection four years later and was assassinated in April, 1865.
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”
“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.”
“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
“If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”
“I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.”
“Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”
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- - - - - - -“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”
“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.”
“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
“If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”
“I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.”
“Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”