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Famous Quotes By Abraham Lincoln - 2

As President, Abraham Lincoln led the Northern States to victory in the American Civil War (1861-65).

Just after the battle of Autietam, Lincoln issued his famous Proclamation of Emancipation of the Negro slaves. The proclamation called on the Southern States to return to their allegiance before the end of the year; otherwise their slaves would be declared free men. The Confederates (or Southerners) ignored the injunction, and the proclamation came into force, though effective only in States under Federal control.

The battle of Gettysburg was fought in July 1863, and in the following November the battlefield was dedicated as a national cemetery (you can read his speech at the bottom of this page).

This is page 2 of famous quotes made by Abraham Lincoln.


It's a good rule never to send a mouse to catch a skunk or a polliwog to tackle a whale.


God must have loved the plain people; he made so many of them.


The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend.


Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.


Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power - Abraham Lincoln


Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally - Abraham Lincoln


It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river - Abraham Lincoln


For those who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing they like. - Abraham Lincoln


He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help. - Abraham Lincoln


If I did not laugh, I should die. - Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln's speech at Gettysburg on November 19th 1863

'Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
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 power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedIcated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honoured dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.'

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If Shakespeare came back to life, what would he do? I'm certain he'd withdraw the play (The Merchant of Venice). - David Thacker British theatre director, April 1994.

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