I don't know why ..but Lincoln always stood out to me as a President.
I think it was his ideas, that got to me !
While this country was out breaking in a fight, he said these AMAZING words ...
"A house divided against itself cannot stand"
What he meant was : If the people of USA go against themselves only, then how in the world are we ever going to get to a compromise?
If we're all against each other in the same country, how can the country prosper?
There was no way !
He was such a simple man! He came from the farms of Kentucky, while he turned down his fathers life as a farmer and went ahead to become a store clerk in New Salem, Illinois.
He was calm, yet so authoritative.
He was able to successfully pass the Emancipation Proclamation which abolished slavery in many parts of the US; On January 1, 1863 he was able to free the slaves and this may have been a better start for the US, which STILL glitches to fix.
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."-Abraham Lincoln
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