Zitate von Abraham Lincoln
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people. Regierung des Volkes, du rch das Volk, für das Volk.
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Präsident / 16. / 1861 - 1865, proklamierte 1862 die Sklavenbefreiung, im Ford Theatre bei einem Theaterbesuch von J. W. Booth erschossen, seine Amtszeit gilt als eine der bedeutendsten in der Geschichte der USA (USA, 1809 - 1865).
Abraham Lincoln · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Abraham Lincoln wäre heute 215 Jahre, 7 Monate, 9 Tage oder 78.749 Tage alt.
Geboren am 12.02.1809 in Hodgenville/Kentucky
Gestorben am 15.04.1865 in Washington/ermordet
Sternzeichen: ♒ Wassermann
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Weitere 200 Zitate von Abraham Lincoln
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If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
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If ever this free people, if this Government itself is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this incessant human wriggle and struggle for office, which is but a way to live without work.
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If they do kill me, I shall never die another death.
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If you intend to go to work, there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work, you cannot get along anywhere. Squirming and crawling about from place to place can do no good.
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If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his true friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the greatest highroad to his reason, and which when once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing his judment of the justice of your cause, If, indeed, that cause be really a just one. On the contrary, assume to dictate to his judgment, or to command his action, or to make him as one to be shunned or despised, and he will retreat within himself, close all the avenues to his head and heart; and though your cause be naked truth itself, transformed to the heaviest lance, harder than steel and sharper than steel can be made, and though you throw it with more than Herculean force and precision, you shall be no more able to pierce him than to penetrate the hard shell of a tortoise with a rye straw.
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In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free-honourable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last, best hope of earth.
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In this and like communities public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed; consequently he who moulds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes and decisions. He makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to be executed.
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In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now blieve that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it, will make you less miserable now.
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In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and in eternity.
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It has ever been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
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It has long been a grave question whether any government, not too strong for the liberties of its people, can be strong enough to maintain its existence in great emergencies.
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It is an old and true maxim that a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men, if you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
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It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
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It is not best to swap horses when crossing streams.
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It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want.
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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.
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Let every man remember that to violate the law is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the charter of his own and his children's liberty. Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit; proclaimed in the legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice. In short, let it become the political religion of the nation.
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Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you're sure to succeed.
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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.
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Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.