Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1865)

birthdate: February 12
birthplace:
Hardin County, Kentucky

QUOTES

Animal Rights
"I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being."

Citizenship
"Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling."

Civil Rights
"The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats."

Community
The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.

Freedom
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

Friendship
"I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends."

Globalization
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country....corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war.

Human Rights
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. 

Kindness
"I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow."

Labor
If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.

All that harms labor is treason to America.

"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration."

The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.

Literacy
"Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance."

Living a Life of Compassion
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.

That we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

No More War
There is no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.

Patriotism
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

Peace
"With malice toward none, with charity for all, ...let us strive on to finish the work we are in, ...to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."

 

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