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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

American statesman

Lived from: 1809 - 1865

Category: Politics Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 12 february 1809 Died: 15 april 1865

  • But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.
  • I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
  • All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother. I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

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  • Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
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  • A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
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  • We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
    First Inaugural Address, 4 March 1861
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