Famous Quotes | We stand at once the wonder and...

We stand at once the wonder and admiration of the whole world, and we must enquire what it is that has given us so much prosperity, and we shall understand that to give up that one thing, would be to give up all future prosperity. This cause is that every man can make himself. - Abraham Lincoln
Attribution: Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), U.S. president. speech at Kalamazoo, Michigan, Aug. 27, 1856. Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 2, p. 364, Rutgers University Press (1953, 1990).

Categories: American Dream, President, Upward Mobility

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