Abraham Lincoln
president · Illinois, USA · 1809–1865
Born in a log cabin in Kentucky, he taught himself law, became a lawyer and then the sixteenth president of the United States. He was shot and killed in the month the Civil War ended.
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October 19, 1860 · To an eleven-year-old who had written that he would win more votes if he grew a beard
As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?
Letter to Grace Bedell
February 11, 1861 · Boarding the train to leave home for his inauguration as president
No one not in my situation can appreciate my feeling of sadness at this parting. To this place, and the kindness of these people, I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been born, and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when or whether ever I may return …
Farewell address at the Springfield station
November 19, 1863 · At the dedication of a cemetery for the soldiers who died in the war
world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
The Gettysburg Address
March 4, 1865 · In the spring when four years of civil war were coming to an end
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.
Second Inaugural Address
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