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Abraham Lincoln
Before being able to evaluate Lincoln as a president and a war leader you need to evaluate him and understand him as a person. This gives you a greater insight into his psyche and helps you to infer the reasoning behind the courses of action he decided to take. Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, on his father's large but "Barren" farm near Hogdenville Kenucky. Growing up on his father's farm he was put to work at an early age. From the age of eight, until he left home at twenty three, he was treated like a slave by his father. On days when Lincoln didn't have any work to do on the family farm his father would rent him out to do work for the neighbors farms near by. As a boy he was never interested in orthodox Christianity of his father, but began cultivating a belief in fatalism. Lincoln's early belief in fatalism derived some of his most notable traits: his compassion, his tolerance, his humbleness, his willingness to overlook mistakes, and his ability to change his mind or his policies when they are not working. He kept this belief through out his life, stating about his life, "In telling this tale I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me". Having little formal education he was forced to seek education through reading any thing he could get his hands on. He would read the bible, Shakespeare, fables, and was especially interested in history and held a reverence for the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Often he would memorize whole passages from stories or books he especially liked, and would go on to quote them later in his political speeches, most notably a passage from the fable of the lion and the four bulls
"A kingdom divided against cannot stand"
In the years after leaving his fathers farm Lincoln took on many odd jobs. He continued his self-education while serving as...
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