Abraham Lincoln Quotes
I have seen your despatch expressing your unwillingness to break your hold where you are. Neither am I willing. Hold on with a bull-dog gripe, and chew & choke, as much as possible.
Lincoln, Abraham. "Telegram to Ulysses S. Grant." 17 Aug. 1864. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, edited by Roy P. Basler, vol. 7, Rutgers University Press, 1953, p. 499.
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.