When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.Abraham Lincoln
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.Abraham Lincoln
I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.Abraham Lincoln
My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say.Abraham Lincoln
It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.Abraham Lincoln
