7 Abraham Lincoln Quotes on Legacy

Abraham Lincoln quotes on legacy

37. May our children and our children's children to a thousand generations, continue to enjoy the benefits conferred upon us by a united country, and have cause yet to rejoice under those glorious institutions bequeathed us by Washington and his compeers.

113. I want it said of me by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

135. You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

153. Now let it be written in history and on Mr. Lincoln's tombstone: 'He died an unbeliever.'

159. If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

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160. There lies the most perfect ruler of men the world has ever seen. Now he belongs to the ages.

163. The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.

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