SEE Daily Quote: Abraham Lincoln

By Nawal Sayed

CAIRO, Feb. 12 (SEE) - 210 years ago, Abraham

Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was born in a log cabin in

Hardin (now LaRue) County, Kentucky. He was a lawyer and politician.

Lincoln was born on Feb. 12, 1809. He served as

US's president from 1861 until his assassination in April 1865 at Ford’s

Theatre in Washington by John Wilkes Booth, an actor, who somehow thought he

was helping the South. The opposite was the result, for with Lincoln’s death,

the possibility of peace with magnanimity died.

Abraham Lincoln 's Birthplace in Kentucky

 Lincoln

led the nation through the Civil War, its bloodiest war and its greatest moral,

constitutional, and political crisis.

He preserved the Union of the states, abolished

slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy.

On Jan. 1, 1863, he issued the Emancipation

Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy.

SEE celebrates his 210th birth

anniversary and publishes some of his most well-known quotes as follows:

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you

want to test a man's character, give him power.” 

“Leave nothing for

tomorrow which can be done today.”

“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I

feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”

“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be

true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I

have.”