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)
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
~ Abraham Lincoln
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
~ Abraham Lincoln
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
~ Abraham Lincoln
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.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
~ Abraham Lincoln
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
~ Abraham Lincoln
There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
~ Abraham Lincoln
He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to
live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
~ Abraham Lincoln
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
~ Abraham Lincoln
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
~ Abraham Lincoln
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
~ Abraham Lincoln
If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
~ Abraham Lincoln
To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men.
~ Abraham Lincoln
His great commitment to civil rights, idealistic thoughts, and charmingly good looks helped make his Senate Campaign
and in 2004 Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate as a Democrat, representing Illinois, and he gained national attention by giving a
rousing and well-received keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention in Boston. In 2008 he ran for President, and despite
having only four years of national political experience, he won. In January 2009, he was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States,
and the first African-American ever elected to that position.
(1961 - )
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
