Abraham Lincoln Quotes
I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail - I shall succeed.
Lincoln, Abraham. "Farewell Address at Springfield, Illinois." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, edited by Roy P. Basler, vol. 4, Rutgers University Press, 1953, p. 190.
He returned 5 years later in a coffin.
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.