Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations.

We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights which they have delivered to our care. We owe it to our posterity not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed.

Our children's children will hear a good story.

When I think about my legacy, I think about the world that we leave behind for our children.

I know I will leave my work unfinished. I just hope I planted enough seeds in my children and grandchildren that they will continue.

Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter.

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

It's not about me, it's about the grandkids. That's what a lot of people don't understand about what Herman is up to.

I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.

I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

When a man says he is building a house for himself and his posterity, he does not mean to be understood as saying that he has any thought of binding them, nor is it to be inferred that he is so foolish as to imagine that he has any right or power to bind them, to live in it.

I have four kids, seven grandkids, and four great-grandkids. Maybe I can become a great-great-grandfather if I hang on!

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

Tonight, we reclaim our country so that we can pass on to future generations the freedoms and the opportunity that we have inherited from those who came before us.

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

When you have children, you realize that at the end, it's all about passing on, about handing down.

Securing freedom has been a singular commitment of American presidents and patriots in and out of government for generations. But its perpetual continuation is not guaranteed.

It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.

I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family.

The future that I will not live to see is the one my children will live in. That's my immortality. And I shouldn't try to mortgage theirs for my benefit.

This election is a critical step in that overall plan - transforming the Iraqi government into a fully constitutional one, able to secure its own borders and ensure the safety of its citizens.