144 Famous Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
2/12/1809 - 4/15/1865
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About Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its greatest constitutional, military, and moral crises—the American Civil War—preserving the Union, abolishing slavery, strengthening the national government and modernizing the economy. Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, Lincoln was self-educated, and became a country lawyer, a Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator during the 1830s, and a one-term member of the United States House of Representatives during the 1840s.
After a series of debates in 1858 that gave national visibility to his opposition to the expansion of slavery, Lincoln lost a Senate race to his arch-rival, Stephen A. Douglas. Lincoln, a moderate from a swing state, secured the Republican Party presidential nomination in 1860. With almost no support in the South, Lincoln swept the North and was elected president in 1860. His election was the signal for seven southern slave states to declare their secession from the Union and form the Confederacy. The departure of the Southerners gave Lincoln's party firm control of Congress, but no formula for compromise or reconciliation was found. Lincoln explained in his second inaugural address: "Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the Nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came."
We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.
Christianity
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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Cause
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With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work ;we are in.
Charity
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Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.
Citizenship
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I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side.
God
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In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.
Opinion
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Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.
Providence
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Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and force a new one that suits them better.
Revolution
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