Abraham Lincoln served as America's 16th President of the United States, during the American Cvil War. He was assassinated soon after beginning his second term as president. Following are quotes from the man many believe to be the most significant president. 

"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan - to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."

"If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong."

"Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet; and those who take such appeal are sure to lose their cause and pay the costs."

"As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it, "All men are created equal, except Negroes." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read, "All men are created equal except Negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some other country where they make no pretense of loving liberty - to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, without the base alloy of hypocrisy."

"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men."

"Truth is generally the best vindication against slander."

"What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?"

"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all."

"'A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.

I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other."

"It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time."