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President Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
- Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and…
- The President responded very impressively, saying that he was deeply sensible of his need of Divine assistance. He had sometime thought that perhaps he might…
- I will either be America's greatest president or its last.
- In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he [the president] is the representative of the people. He is elected by them, as well…
- The President to-night has a dream:He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they began to comment…
- It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to mean no more…
- There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will…
- When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to…
- President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. "Why do you try to make friends of them?" asked an associate. "You should…
- Senator [Stephen] Douglas is of world-wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who have been of his party for years past, have…
- As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you.
- Being President is like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail... A man in the crowd asked…
- I soon began to dream. ... I heard subdued sobs, as if a number of people were weeping. ... I left my bed and wandered…
- 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…
- Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
- Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so…
- Some day I shall be President.
- The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.
- Abraham Lincoln was asked by an aide about the church service he had attended. Lincoln responded that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent and…
- It is my ambition and desire to so administer the affairs of the government while I remain President that if at the end I have…
- Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so…
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