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Father Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
- If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from…
- In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free.…
- Let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his…
- In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public mind rested in…
- It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child…
- As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and Laws, let every…
- I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost,…
- I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of…
- I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as…
- The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea.
- I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps I should say.…
- I told myself, "Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means." So I left my situation in Springfield,…
- Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest amongst us are held out the…
- Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that…
- I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
- My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
- My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read,…
- My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.
- My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in…
- My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it.…
More Father Quotes
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
- I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude. — Desi Arnaz
- My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist,… — Chinua Achebe
- A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon
- Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster
- I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this… — Teresa of Avila
- My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much… — Teresa of Avila
- My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to… — Jensen Ackles
- I'd love to romance Aishwarya Rai. But I'm 58 now. So I have to play her father. — Amitabh Bachchan
- Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government.… — Michael Badnarik