Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln



Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States and one of the great American leaders.
His presidency was dominated by the American Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln was born on 12 February 1809 near Hodgenville, Kentucky. He was brought up in Kentucky,
Indiana and Illinois. His parents were poor pioneers and Lincoln was largely self-educated. In 1836, he qualified
as a lawyer and went to work in a law practice in Springfield, Illinois. He sat in the state legislature from 1834
to 1842 and in 1846 was elected to Congress, representing the Whig Party for a term. In 1856, he joined the new
Republican Party and in 1860 he was asked to run as their presidential candidate.
In the presidential campaign, Lincoln made his opposition to slavery very clear. His victory provoked a crisis,
with many southerners fearing that he would attempt to abolish slavery in the South. Seven southern states
left the Union to form the Confederate States of America, also known as the Confederacy. Four more joined
later. Lincoln vowed to preserve the Union even if it meant war. Fighting broke out in April 1861. Lincoln always
defined the Civil War as a struggle to save the Union, but in January 1863 he nonetheless issued the
Emancipation Proclamation, which freed all slaves in areas still under Confederate control. This was an
important symbolic gesture that identified the Union's struggle as a war to end slavery.
On 19 November 1863, Lincoln delivered his famous Gettysburg Address at the dedication of a cemetery at the
site of the Battle of Gettysburg, a decisive Union victory that had taken place earlier in the year.
On 9 April 1865, the Confederate general Robert E Lee surrendered, effectively ending the war. It had lasted for
more than four years and 600,000 Americans had died. Less than a week later, Lincoln was shot while attending
a performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington DC and died the next morning, 15 April 1865. His assassin, John
Wilkes Booth, was a strong supporter of the Confederacy.
Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side,
for God is always right.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is
and the tree is the real thing.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the
time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

Nobody has ever expected me to be president. In my poor, lean lank face nobody
has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with
bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail;
without it nothing can succeed.

I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual
nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.

Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is
both a profit and a pleasure.

It's my experience that folks who have no vices have generally very few virtues.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than
any other thing.

That some achieve great success is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
The best way to predict your future is to create it.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and
remove all doubts.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system
respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we
as a people can be engaged in.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

Albert Einstein Best Quotes Of All Time

Albert Einstein


Albert Einstein was the embodiment of pure intellect, the bumbling professor with the German accent, a
comic cliche in a thousand films. Instantly recognizable, like Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp, Albert
Einstein's shaggy-haired visage was as familiar to ordinary people as to the matrons who fluttered about
him in salons from Berlin to Hollywood. Yet he was unfathomably profound — the genius among geniuses
who discovered, merely by thinking about it, that the universe was not as it seemed.
Even now scientists marvel at the daring of general relativity ("I still can't see how he thought of it," said
the late Richard Feynman, no slouch himself). But the great physicist was also engagingly simple, trading
ties and socks for mothy sweaters and sweatshirts. He tossed off pithy aphorisms ("Science is a wonderful
thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it") and playful doggerel as easily as equations. Viewing the
hoopla over him with humorous detachment, he variously referred to himself as the Jewish saint or artist's
model. He was a cartoonist's dream come true.
Much to his surprise, his ideas, like Darwin’s, reverberated beyond science, influencing modern culture from
painting to poetry. At first even many scientists didn’t really grasp relativity, prompting Arthur Eddington’s
celebrated wisecrack (asked if it was true that only three people understood relativity, the witty British
astrophysicist paused, then said, “I am trying to think who the third person is”). To the world at large,
relativity seemed to pull the rug out from under perceived reality. And for many advanced thinkers of the
1920s, from Dadaists to Cubists to Freudians, that was a fitting credo, reflecting what science historian
David Cassidy calls “the incomprehensiveness of the contemporary scene--the fall of monarchies, the
upheaval of the social order, indeed, all the turbulence of the 20th century.”

The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.

Best Quotes

 Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a
touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough
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Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind
.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when
we created them.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you, mine are still
greater.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the
the universe.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be
fought with sticks and stones.
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In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for
someone who's dead.

The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...
the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I
should have become a watchmaker.

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted
counts.

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more
important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Try not to become just a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

It´s not that I´m so smart; it´s just that I stay with problems longer.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not
stop questioning.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

The person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Example isn’t another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what then, is an empty desk?

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of
those who look on and do nothing.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse
it. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of
Carnegie?

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,
it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you
sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is
keeping your mouth shut.

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men
with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

Example isn’t another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what then, is an empty desk?

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of
those who look on and do nothing.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse
it. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of
Carnegie?

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,
it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid
.
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you
sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is
keeping your mouth shut

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men
with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward,
then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid
that lack of civilization in high boots.

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.