Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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There is some dispute over the exact date of this document. September 14 is given by some.
Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, 16th President of the United States (Republican, IL), Explanation of disparities of draft quotas allotted to States and districts, August 15, 1863
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Burns phrase “mice an’ men” is later used as the title of John Steinbeck’s novel – Of Mice and Men, 1939.
Commenting on the then unratified U. S. Constitution:
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.
