Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, serving from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. He is best known for leading the nation through the American Civil War, preserving the Union, and emancipating enslaved people.
Lincoln was born in poverty in Kentucky in 1809. He grew up in Indiana and Illinois, where he worked as a storekeeper, a surveyor, and a lawyer. He entered politics in the 1830s, and served in the Illinois state legislature and the U.S. House of Representatives.
In 1860, Lincoln was elected president on the Republican ticket. His election triggered the secession of Southern states, which formed the Confederate States of America. The Civil War began in April 1861, and lasted for four years.
Lincoln was a strong leader during the war. He issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, which declared enslaved people in the Confederate states free. He also oversaw the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which abolished slavery throughout the country.
Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865, just five days after the war ended. His death was a great tragedy for the nation, but his legacy lives on. He is considered one of the greatest presidents in American history, and his words and deeds continue to inspire people around the world.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
The government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Abraham Lincoln
I have always found that people who are most certain about their opinions are often the least informed.
Abraham Lincoln
If you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.
Abraham Lincoln
The only way to deal with an unfree people is to make them free.
Abraham Lincoln
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Abraham Lincoln
The government that governs least governs best.
Abraham Lincoln
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
Abraham Lincoln
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. . The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
Abraham Lincoln
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.
Abraham Lincoln
That government is best which governs least.
