He was the 16th president of the United States, who guided his country through the most devastating experience
in its national history, the Civil War. He is considered by many historians to have been the greatest American president.
He is remembered for his involvement in the process that led to the end of slavery in the United States.
On Good Friday, April 14, 1865, at about 10:15 P.M., while attending a play at Ford's Theatre, president Lincoln was shot in the back of his head.
(1809 - 1865)
Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Public opinion in this country is everything.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
~ Abraham Lincoln
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
~ Abraham Lincoln
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.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not,
I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
~ Abraham Lincoln
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
~ Abraham Lincoln
God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
~ Abraham Lincoln
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
~ Abraham Lincoln
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
~ Abraham Lincoln
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
~ Abraham Lincoln
As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
~ Abraham Lincoln
It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and
unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
~ Abraham Lincoln
No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty
as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel
an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Most people are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
~ Abraham Lincoln
A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
~ Abraham Lincoln
He was the thirty-fifth president of the United States. He was the first president to reach for the moon, through the nation's
space programs. He also was the first president since Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) with whom youth could identify. He made
the nation see itself with new eyes.
On November 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed by an
assassin's bullets as his motorcade wound through Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was the youngest man elected President; he was the youngest to die.
His assassination shocked the world.
(1917 - 1963)
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
~ Carl Sagan
The difference between what the most and the least learned people
know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
~ Albert Einstein
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
~ Edwin Hubble
