Famous quotes containing the words abraham lincoln, president and/or lincoln:
“The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“I can’t be President since I am a naturalized citizen, but I figured everything else was fair game.”
—Arati Prabhakar (b. c. 1959)
“It would astonish if not amuse, the older citizens of your County who twelve years ago knew me a stranger, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working on a flat boat—at ten dollars per month to learn that I have been put down here as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)