50 facts about abraham lincoln

Among all the US presidents , Abraham Lincoln is very famous and well known for his abolishment of slavery in the United States of America. You are going to learn Abraham Lincoln Facts For Kid s that will provide you all the information on who he was, his birth, full name, nationality, birthplace, height, personality, beliefs, childhood, schooling, early life, education, adulthood, parents, siblings, personal life, marriages, children, descendants, pets, history, politics, presidency, foreign policy, timeline, popularity, accomplishments, abolishment of slavery, speeches, books, assassination, quotes and many interesting facts about Abraham Lincoln.

He had no expressed fondness for anything and ate mechanically. I have seen him sit down at the table absorbed in thought and never unless recalled to his senses, would he think of food. But however peculiar and secretive he may have seemed, he was anything but cold. Abraham Lincoln was elected to the U. S Congress as a candidate of the Whig Party.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.

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It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.