Abraham Lincoln kept the US united and freed black Americans from slavery.
To achieve these historic feats, he relied on a mastery of the written and spoken word. In honor of his 206th birthday, we've collected a few of his most inspiring quotes.
On genius
"Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored."
On hypocrisy
"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."
On reading
"A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones."
[Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, 1859]
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