Lincoln 200 Years
A more complex view of Lincoln as time passes
Born 200 years ago on Febuary 12, 1809 in a log cabin on the Kentucky frontier, Abraham Lincoln today sits deified in a marble temple on the National Mall in Washington. Americans are still trying to figure out how he came such a long way, and what kind of man made the trip.
Having saved the Union, freed the slaves and redefined freedom, Lincoln was struck down in his hour of triumph. He is the most compelling figure in U.S. history, the subject of about 16,000 books in English, more than anyone except Jesus and Shakespeare.
Quotes of Abraham Lincoln
"A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have. . . A house divided against itself cannot stand. . . Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. . . Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? . . . And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. . . Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. . . Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. . . Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. . . Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. .. Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible. . . Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth." President Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln's Wisdom and Fortitude
He waged America's bloodiest war, and he won a painful peace. In between, he issued a proclamation about which, before pen hit paper, he said, "I never, in my life, felt more certain that I was doing right, than I do in signing this paper." on Nov. 19, 1863, Lincoln gave a short speech consecrating a Civil War cemetery at Gettysburg, Pa. The battle there was the war's turning point; some 45,000 men had died as the Union turned back the Confederate invasion of the North.
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