Abraham Lincoln: 16th president of the United States, 1809 to 1865.
Attributed to Abraham Lincoln · No record exists of Lincoln saying it; the line first appeared in a Syracuse newspaper column by Dr. Frank Crane on January 1, 1914, nearly fifty years after Lincoln's death.
Abraham Lincoln · Advice to Isham Reavis, a young man who had asked to study law under him, in a letter of 5 November 1855.
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