Abraham Lincoln is widely regarded as one of the greatest American presidents in history. Born on February 12, 1809, in Hodgenville, Kentucky, Lincoln rose from humble beginnings to become a self-taught lawyer, a successful politician, and eventually the 16th President of the United States. He is best known for his leadership during the Civil War, his efforts to end slavery, and his powerful speeches, including the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address.
Lincoln’s childhood was marked by hardship and poverty. His family moved frequently, and he had limited access to education. Despite these challenges, Lincoln was a voracious reader and taught himself the law. He served in the Illinois state legislature before being elected to the US House of Representatives in 1846. Although he was not reelected, Lincoln remained active in politics and was selected as the Republican Party’s presidential nominee in 1860.
Lincoln’s election was a turning point in American history. Southern states began to secede from the Union, and in April 1861, the Civil War began. As President, Lincoln faced immense challenges. He had to balance the need to preserve the Union with the desire to end slavery, which he saw as a moral evil. In 1862, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that all slaves in Confederate-held territory were free. While this did not immediately end slavery, it was a significant step towards its abolition.
Lincoln’s leadership during the Civil War was marked by determination, patience, and compassion. He worked closely with his generals, including Ulysses S. Grant, to devise effective military strategies. He visited hospitals to meet with wounded soldiers and wrote personal letters of condolence to the families of fallen soldiers. In 1864, he was reelected in a landslide victory, and in April 1865, the war came to an end.
Unfortunately, Lincoln did not live to see the full fruits of his labor. On April 14, 1865, he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate sympathizer. His death was a tragic loss for the nation, but his legacy lived on. Lincoln is remembered not only for his role in ending slavery and preserving the Union but also for his powerful oratory skills. His Gettysburg Address, delivered in 1863 at the dedication of a cemetery for Union soldiers, is considered one of the greatest speeches in American history.
In conclusion, Abraham Lincoln was an exceptional leader who overcame significant obstacles to become one of America’s most beloved presidents. His commitment to ending slavery and preserving the Union helped shape the course of American history. His legacy lives on today, and his words and deeds continue to inspire generations of Americans.
“Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Sir, 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.” — Abraham Lincoln
“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.” — Abraham Lincoln
“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Love is the chain to lock a child to its parent.” — Abraham Lincoln
“There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.” — Abraham Lincoln
“You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.” — Abraham Lincoln
“He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.” — Abraham Lincoln
“A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.” — Abraham Lincoln
“For people who like that kind of a book that is the kind of book they will like.” — Abraham Lincoln
“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
“I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.” — Abraham Lincoln
“I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.” — Abraham Lincoln
“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” — Abraham Lincoln
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.” — Abraham Lincoln
“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.” — Abraham Lincoln
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Every man’s happiness is his own responsibility.” — Abraham Lincoln
“If I am killed, I can die but once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” — Abraham Lincoln
“I would rather be a little nobody, then to be an evil somebody.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?” …— Abraham Lincoln
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other thing.” — Abraham Lincoln
“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.” — Abraham Lincoln
“I have a congenital aversion to failure.” — Abraham Lincoln
“I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father’s child has.” — Abraham Lincoln
“The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.” — Abraham Lincoln
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. …— Abraham Lincoln
“And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good.” — Abraham Lincoln
“What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.”— Abraham Lincoln
“I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.” — Abraham Lincoln
“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.” — Abraham Lincoln
“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.” — Abraham Lincoln
“I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.”— Abraham Lincoln
“The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.”— Abraham Lincoln
“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” — Abraham Lincoln
“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.” — Abraham Lincoln
“The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God’s green earth.” — Abraham Lincoln
“All I ask for the negro is that if you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little, that little let him enjoy.” — Abraham Lincoln
“I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal.” — Abraham Lincoln
“No man is good enough to govern another man, without that other’s consent. I say this is the leading principle–the sheet anchor of American republicanism.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.” — Abraham Lincoln
“In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this book.” — Abraham Lincoln
“I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.” — Abraham Lincoln
“The United States government must not undertake to run the Churches. When an individual, in the Church or out of it, becomes dangerous to the public interest he must be checked.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Whatever you are, be a good one.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.” — Abraham Lincoln
“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.” — Abraham Lincoln
“I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.” — Abraham Lincoln
“The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man’s course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle.” — Abraham Lincoln
“What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?” — Abraham Lincoln
“Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.” — Abraham Lincoln
“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.” — Abraham Lincoln
“The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.— Abraham Lincoln
“I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.” — Abraham Lincoln
“My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don’t deny it. I’d rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh—anything but work.” — Abraham Lincoln
“If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.”— Abraham Lincoln
“I distrust the wisdom if not the sincerity of friends who would hold my hands while my enemies stab me.” — Abraham Lincoln
“I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.”— Abraham Lincoln
“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.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Whatever you are, be a good one.” — Abraham Lincoln
“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.” — Abraham Lincoln
“I will prepare and someday my chance will come.” — Abraham Lincoln
“I do the very best I know how–the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.” — Abraham Lincoln
“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.” — Abraham Lincoln
“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” — Abraham Lincoln
“I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Towering genius distains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.” — Abraham Lincoln
“There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.” — Abraham Lincoln
“If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.” — Abraham Lincoln
“The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.” — Abraham Lincoln
“In law it is a good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in the bonds of fraternal feeling.” — Abraham Lincoln
“I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”— Abraham Lincoln
“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”— Abraham Lincoln
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”— Abraham Lincoln
“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.”— Abraham Lincoln
“If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.”— Abraham Lincoln
“Perhaps a man’s character is like a tree, and his reputation like its shadow; the shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”— Abraham Lincoln
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