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A selection of Abraham Lincoln's best quotes - inspiring, intelligent, witty and reflective - from "I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice" to "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."

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Publié par	Crombie Jardine Publishing Limited
Date de parution	27 janvier 2013
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781291304633
Langue	English

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN 1809–1865

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States. He was in office from 4 March 1861 until 15 April 1865.

Born on 12 February 1809 in Hardin County, Kentucky, of humble beginnings, Lincoln was largely self-taught and was an avid reader and proficient writer.

Before entering the political arena in 1858, Lincoln was a lawyer noted for his wit and powerfully persuasive arguments.

As President, Lincoln led the United States through one of the most tumultuous times in their history – the American Civil War (the ‘Union’ or the Northern states against the ‘Confederate States of America’ or Southern slave states). Some saw the cause of the war as the need to preserve the Union, others as abolishing slavery. Lincoln’s anti-slavery stance was not welcomed by the Southern slave states who seceded the Union. Lincoln opposed slavery in the territories and argued that the preservation of the House depended on it being unified on the slavery issue. A compromise could not be reached and hostilities began. In 1863 the rebel slave states were faced with Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. Initially, this applied only to the rebel states, but was later amended to the entire United States. A symbol of equality and social justice, it paved the way for the total abolition of slavery.

During Lincoln’s presidency, in 1863, the National Banking Act was passed. This established a national banking system and a standardized national currency.

Lincoln was the first President of the United States to be assassinated, shot at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., on 14 April 1965 by the stage actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth. Booth believed that by killing Lincoln he would be doing a service to his race and to the nation.

Lincoln is buried at Lincoln’s Tomb, Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Illinois.

THE BEST ABRAHAM LINCOLN QUOTES

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

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Achievement has no colour.

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A drop of honey gathers more flies than a gallon of gall.

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A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

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A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved – I do not expect the house to fall – but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.

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All creation is a mine, and very man, a miner.

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Allow the President to invade a neighbouring 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 purpose – and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

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All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

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Always bear in mind that our own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.

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And in the end, it is not the years in your life that count, it is the life in your years.

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As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal'. We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes'. When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics'. When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.

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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

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A tendency to melancholy […] let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.

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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad.