Abraham Lincoln
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Biography
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, serving from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. He led the United States through the American Civil War, defeating the Confederacy and playing a major role in the abolition of slavery.
"Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be."
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other."
"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."
"My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth."
"I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life."
"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world."
"I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause."
"In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth."
"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
"That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well."
"My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read."
"And in the end it is not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years."
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
"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."
"I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down."
"The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person."
"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all."
"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses."
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
"Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it."
"I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God."
"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have."
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing."
"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."