Famous quotes containing the words abraham lincoln, president, abraham and/or lincoln:
“You have confidence in yourself, which is valuable, if not an indispensable quality.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“I don’t have any problem with a reporter or a news person who says the President is uninformed on this issue or that issue. I don’t think any of us would challenge that. I do have a problem with the singular focus on this, as if that’s the only standard by which we ought to judge a president. What we learned in the last administration was how little having an encyclopedic grasp of all the facts has to do with governing.”
—David R. Gergen (b. 1942)
“Man you can define; but the true essence of any man, say, for instance, of Abraham Lincoln, remains the endlessly elusive and mysterious object of the biographer’s interest, of the historian’s comments, of popular legend, and of patriotic devotion.”
—Josiah Royce (1855–1916)
“Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)