Quotes to Ponder: Abraham Lincoln



  • Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

  • Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

  • Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

  • If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

  • If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg.



Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States was renowned for successfully leading his country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War and ending slavery in America. His tenure as President ended on April 1865 when he was assasinated by John Wilkes Booth.

Comments

debasis said…
dear footiam I am against his word to lessen popularity in order to get peace.Whoever in this world do not want to be popular and get a celebrity status
footiam said…
A president can be wrong!