Biography of Abraham Lincoln

Today is Presidents Day! And this is a photograph of Abraham Lincoln, my favorite U.S. President. Everything I know about this great historical figure, I learned on the internet and distilled for you in a 6 minute audio recording! Thank you to wikipedia and to all of American History for making this podcast possible. --Leonard Steinberg, 5th grader at Franklin Middle School, Summit, NJ

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In honor of all the presidents, I am posting some of my favorite presidential quotes, culled from the historical quotation database at: http://www.whitehouse.gov.com/prezquotes


“A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.”
--Rutherford B. Hayes

“The only limits on what you can accomplish are the limits YOU place on your own imagination.”
-James K. Polk

“To the world you are one person, but to one person you could mean the world.”
--Ulysses S. Grant

“Man is as vast as he acts.”
--Howard Taft

“Say it straight, simple and with a smile.”
--Richard M. Nixon

“The body is a temple:  take care of it.”
--John F. Kennedy

“Reach for the moon...if you miss at least you'll be among the stars.”
--Millard Fillmore

“People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.”
--Andrew Jackson

“Your destiny is to merge with infinity.”
--George H. W. Bush

“Every smile is a direct achievement.”
--William Jefferson Clinton

“Love what is ahead by loving what has come before.”
--Herbert Hoover

“If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.”
--William Henry Harrison

“I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.”
--Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“Love is a tickle around the heart that you can't scratch.”
--Theodore Roosevelt

“My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.”
--John Quincy Adams

“If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.”
--Ronald Regan

“Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men - the other 999 follow women.”
--Barack Obama

“Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.”
--Grover Cleaveland

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.”
--Thomas Jefferson

“The shortest distance between two points is under construction.”
--Dwight D. Eisenhower

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
--Martin Van Buren

“If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.”
--Lyndon B. Johnson

“Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.”
--James Buchanan

“I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself.”
--Gerald Ford

“Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.”
--Martin Van Buren