“We cannot escape history.”

— Abraham Lincoln · Wisdom quote

U.S. President · 1809 – 1865

16th president of the United States (1861-1865), who led the country through the Civil War and abolished slavery.

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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.

With malice toward none, with charity for all.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.