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1809–1865 United States

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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Also known as: Abe Lincoln, Abraham lincoln, Lincoln, Lincoln, Abraham, The Gettysburg Address

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We, on our side, are praying Him to give us victory, because we believe we are right; but those on the other side pray to Him, look for victory, believing they are right. What must He think of us?

To give the victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.

Persisting in a charge which one does not know to be true, is simply malicious slander.

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

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

I take the official oath to-day with no mental reservations and with no purpose to construe the Constitution by any hypercritical rules.

You enquire where I now stand. That is a disputed point.

Letter to Joshua F. Speed (1855)

What has once happened, will invariably happen again, when the same circumstances which combined to produce it, shall again combine in the same way.

With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

If Slavery Is Not Wrong, Nothing Is Wrong (1864)

I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.

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.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing.

In law it is a good policy never to plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you cannot.

In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.

The strongest bond of human sympathy, outside of the family relation, should be one uniting all working people, of all nations, and tongues, and kindreds.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

Allow the humblest man an equal chance (1860)

It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river.

Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.

Allow the humblest man an equal chance (1860)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Abraham Lincoln (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.