Lived from 1809-1865
16th President of the United States
Assassinated April 1865
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Memorable Quotes:
"I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come."
"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."
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-As a young boy, his dying mother called him to her bedside before passing and whispered into his ear, "Be somebody, Abe".
-He started out as an uneducated, poverty-stricken grocery clerk who found some law books in the bottom of a barrel. He purchased them for fifty cents and began a career in law.
-As a young man he used to criticize others by dropping insulting letters and poems on country roads where they would most assuredly by found.
-His last documented occasion of insulting another person resulted in a challenge to fight in a duel by politician James Shields. Lincoln took lessons in sword fighting from a West Point graduate, and prepared to fight to the death. At the last minute, the fight was cancelled. It was said that Lincoln never insulted anyone again following this incident.
-One of his favorite quotations was, "Judge not, that ye be not judged"
-He had 4 sons, with 3 dying and only 1 living to maturity
-He failed in two business ventures, lost 8 different elections and had a complete nervous breakdown before becoming president in 1861.
-As president, he famously issued an executive order called the "Emancipation Proclamation", proclaiming the freedom of millions of slaves.
-He delivered one of the most known speeches in US history, "The Gettysburg Address", which examined the founding principles of the United States.
-He delivering a speech promoting voting rights for blacks, angering a well-known actor and confederate spy from Maryland named John Wilkes Booth.
-While he lay dying the morning of April 15, 1865, after being shot at point-blank range by Booth, Secretary of War Stanton said, "There lies the most perfect ruler of men that the world has ever seen."
-The only president in which following his assassination, grave robbers attempted to steal his body and use it as ransom.
-Theodore Roosevelt said that when he, as president, faced a complex problem, would look up at a large painting of Lincoln and think to himself, "What would Lincoln do if he were in my shoes? How would he solve this problem?"
Sometimes a timely insult will shame someone into doing something different.
If the jibe is true, perhaps they won’t get angry and they will wisely use it as an opportunity to learn and correct past mistakes – but then again, most of the time it’s just better to get our nose out of their butt and keep our mouth’s shut.
You gotta watch those actors…even then they had ‘controllers,’ and they were used for ‘special roles’ – just as they are used today. Do you see the historical and cultural parallels?
How much do YOU know? Knowing too much can get you dead fast or it can keep your ass in one piece if you’re like Hoover.
There is nothing new under the sun…