Quote

The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their support, and their confidence.

Abraham Lincoln

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
16Th U.S. President
Farmer
Lawyer
Military Officer
Politician
Postmaster
Statesperson
Hodgenville
Kentucky
Honest Abe
A. Lincoln
President Lincoln
Abe Lincoln
Lincoln
Uncle Abe
People
Hopes
University
Confidence
Built
Invested
System
Universities
Land
Grant
Public
Behalf
Support
Grants

More quotes by Abraham Lincoln

Image
When I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he's fighting a swarm of bees.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Nothing is more damaging to you than to do something that you believe is wrong.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and deserves muchthe higher consideration.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Don't pray that God's on our side, pray that we're on his side.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave of another man, neither that other man nor anybody else has a right to object.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
you can't escape tomorrow's responsibilities by evading it today
Abraham Lincoln
Image
It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they shall be constitutionally preserved.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Military necessity does not admit of cruelty - that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge, . . . nor of torture to extort confessions.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet
Abraham Lincoln
Image
If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
It's time for me to go. But I would rather stay.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
I believe I shall never be old enough to speak without embarrassment when I have nothing to talk about.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief. Once relieved, its form of government is saved to the world its beloved history, and cherished memories, are vindicated and its happy future fully assured, and rendered inconceivably grand.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.
Abraham Lincoln