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Posted on Oct 23, 2008 under 16th President of the United States, A, Abraham Lincoln, American Civil War, First assassinated American President | 2 CommentsAbraham Lincoln’s love quotes and sayings.
1. My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl, and I…fell in love with her; and what is more, I have never fallen out.
2. Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
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Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th President of the United States. He successfully led the country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery. As the war was drawing to a close, Lincoln became the first American president to be assassinated.
Before his election in 1860 as the first Republican president, Lincoln had been a country lawyer, an Illinois state legislator, a member of the United States House of Representatives, and twice an unsuccessful candidate for election to the U.S. Senate. As an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery in the United States, Lincoln won the Republican Party nomination in 1860 and was elected president later that year.
He introduced measures that resulted in the abolition of slavery, issuing his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and promoting the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which passed Congress before Lincoln’s death and was ratified by the states later in 1865. Lincoln closely supervised the victorious war effort, especially the selection of top generals, including Ulysses S. Grant. Historians have concluded that he handled the factions of the Republican Party well, bringing leaders of each faction into his cabinet and forcing them to cooperate.
Lincoln successfully defused the Trent affair, a war scare with Britain, in 1861. Under his leadership, the Union took control of the border slave states at the start of the war.
Additionally, he managed his own reelection in the 1864 presidential election. Copperheads and other opponents of the war criticized Lincoln for refusing to compromise on the slavery issue. Conversely, the Radical Republicans, an abolitionist faction of the Republican Party, criticized him for moving too slowly in abolishing slavery. Even with these road blocks, Lincoln successfully rallied public opinion through his rhetoric and speeches; his Gettysburg Address is but one example of this.
At the close of the war, Lincoln held a moderate view of Reconstruction, seeking to speedily reunite the nation through a policy of generous reconciliation. His successor in the White House, Andrew Johnson, also wanted reconciliation among white Americans, but failed to protect the rights of newly freed slaves. Lincoln’s assassination in 1865 was the first presidential assassination in American history. He has since consistently been ranked by scholars as one of the greatest U.S. Presidents. (more detailed reading of Abraham Lincoln at Wikipedia)
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Famous Sayings from Abraham Lincoln
1. All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.
2. Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose – and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
3. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
4. As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
5. Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
6. Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
7. Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
8. Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
9. Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
10. 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.
11. I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.
12. I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
13. If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
14. If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.
15. In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
16. My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
17. Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
18. People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
19. When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.
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