Abraham Lincoln Quotes
When [Ulysses S.] Grant once gets possession of a place he holds on to it as if he had inherited it.
Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, 16th President of the United States (Republican, IL), Letter to Benjamin F. Butler, June 22, 1864
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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.