Abraham Lincoln Quotes
I will work and get ready and perhaps my time will come.
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Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, 16th President of the United States (Republican, IL), Diary, Quoted by President William Clinton to a young Russian boy, Town Meeting, Russia, January 14, 1994
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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.