Abraham Lincoln Quotes
I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me.
The pledge was not delivered by Lincoln’s Secretary of State who thought it would unnerve the country.
Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, 16th President of the United States (Republican, IL), Pledge written for Union Governors to be delivered by his Secretary of State, 1862
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Abraham Lincoln was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy.