Top 10 Best Quotations for Presidents Day

Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but the caste of humanity.  ~George Bancroft

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

He is one of those giant figures, of whom there are very few in history, who lose their nationality in death.  ~David Lloyd George

Would I might rouse the Lincoln in you all.  ~Vachel Lindsay

He showed that fame may be won and what services be rendered by a plain son of the people unaided by any gifts of fortune.  ~James Bryce

In him was vindicated the greatness of real goodness and the goodness of real greatness.  ~Phillips Brooks

He was one of the few great rulers whose wisdom increased with his power, and whose spirit grew gentler and tenderer as his triumphs were multiplied.  ~James A. Garfield

Lincoln had faith in time, and time has justified his faith.  ~Benjamin Harrison

To him was given the duty and responsibility of making that great classic of liberty, the Declaration of Independence, no longer an empty promise, but a glorious fulfillment.  ~William McKinley

Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.  ~Napoleon I