Quotes by President

I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that i had nowhere else to go my own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the declaration of independence.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

What is conservatism is it not adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried.

The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.