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Abraham Lincoln

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I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.


— Abraham Lincoln


#concerned #grandfather #grandson #his #i

I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.


— Abraham Lincoln


#foreshadowing #striving #excellence

Stand with anyone that is right; stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.


— Abraham Lincoln


#courage

Achievement has no color


— Abraham Lincoln


#inspirational #racism #inspirational

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.


— Abraham Lincoln


#self-reliance #self-help

Live a good life. In the end it is not the years in a life, but the life in the years.


— Abraham Lincoln


#enjoy-life #misattributed #life

Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)


— Abraham Lincoln


#faith #happiness #faith

Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.


— Abraham Lincoln


#humour #legal-system #parenting

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.


— Abraham Lincoln


#slavery #freedom

Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.


— Abraham Lincoln


#leadership #loyalty #moral-courage #courage






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Twice a week Lincoln would meet with his cabinet in the afternoon and occasionally Mary Lincoln would force him to take a carriage ride because Abraham Lincoln was concerned he was working too hard. Lincoln authorized Grant to target the Confederate infrastructure—such as plantations railroads and bridges—hoping to destroy the South's morale and weaken its economic ability to continue fighting. Upon ratification it became the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution on December 6 1865.

presidents the others by scholars being George Washington and Franklin D. With almost no support in the South Lincoln swept the North and was elected president in 1860. "
When the North enthusiastically rallied behind the national flag after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter on April 12 1861 Lincoln concentrated on the military and political dimensions of the war effort.

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