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After his failed political career, Lincoln often pondered the question of the purpose of the meaning of life. In 1850 [ten years before he was elected President], Lincoln told Herdon [his law partner] "How hard, oh how hard it is to die and leave one's country no better than if one had never lived.


Ronald C. White Jr.


#history #inspirational #inspirational

Everything which made Abraham Lincoln the loved and honored man he was, it is in the power of the humblest American boy to imitate.


New York Times April


#history #inspirational #lincoln #motivational #inspirational

Your Seer needs my help to do somethin' she can't. To join the ti-bon-age, mend the seams she ripped herself." Link didn't understand either. "T-bone what? What kinda steak are we talkin' about here?


Kami Garcia


#wesley-jefferson-lincoln #age

The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than any other American president.


David Herbert Donald


#american #american president #any #better #convinced

That settled Abraham Lincoln with me. I was thoroughly satisfied that no such man ought to be President; but I could not yet conceive it possible that such a monster would be the choice of a majority of the people for President.


John Sergeant Wise


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He was a secretive man, who kept his own counsel. He was an ambitious man of humble origins, with colossal designs on the future. And it would always be advantageous not to be closely known, never to be transparent. Passing a farmer on a day, he would tip his hat and grin. Everybody knew him. Nobody knew him. He would play the fool, the clown, the melancholy poet dying for love, the bumpkin. He would take the world by stealth and not by storm. He would disarm enemies by his apparent naiveté, by seeming pleasantly harmless. He would go to such lengths in making fun of his own appearance that others felt obliged to defend it. -Daniel Mark Epstein.


Daniel Mark Epstein


#design

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.


Abraham Lincoln


#constitution #hour-of-peril #lincoln #respect

The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession.


Abraham Lincoln


#atheism #bible

In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement.


Peter Agre


#abraham lincoln #act #bill #half #homestead

I am a Ford, not a Lincoln.


Gerald R. Ford


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