Top 20 Quotes About Lincoln's Presidency
#1. The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that we demonstrate enormous fidelity to history and that, beyond that, we've actually contributed a line of thinking about Lincoln's presidency that's somewhat original.
Tony Kushner
#2. Please do not understand me too quickly.
Andre Gide
#3. Millions of Mexicans leave their kids in order to take care of other kids. That's a very painful thing.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#4. Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of all is elected by a minority of the votes.
David Herbert Donald
#5. To the new president, Abraham Lincoln: Sir, if on attaining the presidency you are as happy as I am upon leaving it, then, sir, you are a happy man indeed.
James Buchanan
#6. There's a somebody I'm longing to see, I hope that he, turns out to be, someone to watch over me.
Ira Gershwin
#8. The only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. Our charities should pinch and hamper us. If we live at the same level of affluence as other people who have our level of income, we are probably giving away too little.
C.S. Lewis
#9. He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
Immanuel Kant
#10. The Presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses; and [Zachary] Taylor like others, found thorns within it. No human being can fill that station and escape censure.
Abraham Lincoln
#11. True Shandeism, think what you will against it, opens the heart and lungs, and like all those affections which partake of its nature, it forces the blood and other vital fluids of the body to run freely thro' its channels, and makes the wheel of life run long and chearfully round.
Laurence Sterne
#12. I walked out of Spielberg's 'Lincoln' having such a thirst for more. It used such a microscopic albeit enormous event in American history. It used such a small piece of his presidency to illustrate him as a president through the lens of that event.
Jesse Johnson
#13. When we understand our relationship to God, we also understand our relationship to one another.
Dallin H. Oaks
#14. Presidents in wartime, embattled presidents, unpopular presidents, they all look to Lincoln. He's their patron saint because no president was more embattled or more unpopular than Lincoln was during his presidency. We think he was born on Mount Rushmore. Not so.
Richard Norton Smith
#16. The Internet is changing the way we think of our relationship with government; it has the potential to bring to life what Abraham Lincoln said about the presidency being an instrument of the people.
Jose Antonio Vargas
#17. Then was the monument called "Stonehenge," which stands, as all men know, upon the plain of Salisbury to this very day.
Knowles James Knowles
#18. And Lincoln, as would be evidenced throughout his presidency, was a master of timing.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#19. I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano lessons and I was doing classes in music theory and composition.
Rohinton Mistry
#20. Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.
Paris Hilton
