Famous quotes containing the words abraham lincoln, president, abraham and/or lincoln:
“Doubtless you begin to understand how disagreeable it is to me to do a thing arbitrarily, when it is unsatisfactory to others associated with me.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“I do not choose to run for President in nineteen twenty-eight.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)
“Do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our ancestor’; for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham.”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 3:9.
“The signs look better. The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea. Thanks to the great North-West for it. Nor yet wholly to them.... The job was a great national one.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)