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.”