There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
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Abraham Lincoln
Born: 12-02-1809 – Died: 15-04-1865
Nationality: American
Known for: President, politician, lawyer
About Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) led the United States through its most trying period as the 16th President during the Civil War. Rising from humble roots, he was instrumental in preserving the Union and, crucially, in advancing the cause of abolishing slavery. His powerful, often quoted words, delivered with eloquence and moral clarity, continue to define American ideals of liberty and unity.
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I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.
I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.
I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?