Abraham Lincoln Quotes
If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.
Lincoln, Abraham. "Letter to Isham Reavis." 5 Nov. 1855. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, edited by Roy P. Basler, vol. 2, Rutgers University Press, 1953, p. 327.
The President had appointed his brother Robert Kennedy as U. S. Attorney General. Critics charged that although Robert was an attorney, he had never tried a case in court. With tongue in cheek the President replied…
Abraham Lincoln was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy.
