Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Politician, Lawyer
Abraham Lincoln was politician, lawyer from the United States
“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”— Abraham Lincoln
Spoken at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on November 19, 1863, during the Civil War. The address redefined the war as a fight for equality and democracy.
The Story of Abraham
With Malice Toward None
On March 4, 1865, standing beneath a rainy sky at his second inauguration, Lincoln spoke with unusual tenderness: 'with malice toward none, with charity for all.' He had won reelection, but the war had carved grief into him. Just weeks later, on April 14, he went to Ford's Theatre with Mary Todd Lincoln and was shot by John Wilkes Booth. The next morning he died. Crowds wept from Washington to Springfield, and the words of that final spring outlived him.
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