Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th president of the United States of America from March 1861 to April 1865 until his assassination.
Lincoln led the nation during the American Civil War, its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. He preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the U.S. economy.
Lincoln's parents were both born in Virginia, When young Lincoln was nine years old, his mother died of tremetol (milk sickness) at age 34, on October 5, 1818. In 1819, just a year after his mother’s death, Lincoln’s father Thomas married Sarah Bush Johnston, a Kentucky widow with three children of her own.
During they shifted to Indiana wilderness Reading material was in short supply at that time. Lincoln Neighbors recalled how Lincoln would walk for miles to borrow a book. Lincoln began his political career and was elected to the Illinois state legislature as a member of the Whig Party in 1834.
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Lincoln served a single term in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1847 to 1849. During his term in office, he used to speak out against the Mexican-American War and supported Zachary Taylor for president in 1848. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865, by well-known actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.
21 Amazing Motivational Abraham Lincoln Quotes that always gives us Goose Bumps when we heard these.
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1. You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
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5. Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
6. Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
7. How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg.
8. Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
9. The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
11. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
13. As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
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14. Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
15. Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
16. Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
17. No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
18. As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
19. 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 by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
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20. If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
21. There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.
