Famous quotes containing the words abraham lincoln, president and/or lincoln:
“The taste is in my mouth a little; and this, no doubt, disqualifies me, to some extent, to form correct opinions.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)