Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

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 Confederate States and playing a major role in the abolition of slavery.

Quotes

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
I do not believe the Union will disolve, I believe it will become all one thing, or all the other.
Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that is my religion.
If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it.
I'm not concerned that you have fallen,
I'm concerned that you arise.
No matter how much cats fight there always seem to be plenty of Kittens.
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all... Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now realize that you will ever feel better... And yet this is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again.
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory shall swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of nature.
Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other.... The prayers of both could not be answered--that of neither has been answered fully.
I am not concerned that you have fallen; I am concerned that you arise.
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
No man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.

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