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Abraham Lincoln

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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.


— Abraham Lincoln


#doubt #fool #out #remain #remove

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.


— Abraham Lincoln


#his #i #like #live #lives

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.


— Abraham Lincoln


#goes #him #part #right #stand

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.


— Abraham Lincoln


#being #created #day #exist #god

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.


— Abraham Lincoln


#government #itself #people #save #their

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.


— Abraham Lincoln


#being #business #compromise #discourage #enough

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.


— Abraham Lincoln


#bullets #peaceful #rightful #successors

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.


— Abraham Lincoln


#i #never #slowly #walk

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.


— Abraham Lincoln


#another #another man #consent #enough #good

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.


— Abraham Lincoln


#best #flower #grow #i #i always






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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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