Abraham Lincoln Quotes

President of the United States from 1861 to 1865

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Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865) was the 16th president of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Initially entering politics as a Whig, he became a member of the US congress from Illinois, and later the first Republican president, leading Union forces throughout the moral, constitutional, political and military crises of the American Civil War, during which he abolished slavery and strengthened the U.S. government.

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Alternative Names: Honest Abe • President Lincoln • Abe Lincoln • Uncle Abe • A. Lincoln • Lincoln

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if what i feel were equally distributed to the whole human family there would not be one cheerful face on earth

Menschen, die keine Laster haben, haben auch nur wenige Tugenden.

opportunities for satisfying that thirst were

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I listen to everybody, but most of the time I learn not to do

Hãy quyết tâm sống chân thật trong mọi sự; nếu bạn thấy mình không thể trở thành một luật sư trung thực, thì hãy cố sống trung thực mà không cần phải làm luật sư.

January 18th. Georgia secedes [from the union].

21st. Withdrawal from the Senate of Jefferson Davis and other southern senators.

26th. (To Mrs. C. W. Pratt) Herewith I send you my autograph, which you request.

26th. Louisiana secedes.

being used now, in order to force slavery on to Kansas; for it cannot be done in any other way. [Sensation.] The

The strength of a nation lies in the homes of its people

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.” —

Nothing is more damaging to you than to do something that you believe is wrong.

NO AMERICAN CAN study the character and career of Abraham Lincoln without being carried away by sentimental emotions. We are always inclined to idealize that which we love, — a state of mind very unfavorable to the exercise of sober critical judgment.

We cannot absolutely know that all these exact adaptations are the result of preconcert. But when we see a lot of framed timbers, different potions of which we know have been gotten out at different times and places and by different workmen,- Stephen, Franklin, Roger and James, for instance-and we see these timbers joined together, and see they exactly make the frame of a house or a mill, all the tenons and mortieses exactly fitting, and all the lengths and proportions of the different pieces exactly adapted to their respective places, and not a piece too many or too few-not omitting even scaffolding-or, if a single piece be lacking, we see the place in the frame exactly fitted and prepared to yet bring such piece in-in such a case, we find it impossible not to believe that Stephen and Franklin and Roger and James all understood one another from the beginning, and all worked upon a common plan or draft drawn up before the first lick was struck.

"Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Ningún hombre tiene memoria suficiente para ser un mentiroso exitoso" (Abraham Lincoln)"

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my best each and every day.