Abraham Lincoln won the presidency of a divided country. There
were four major candidates in 1860,...
President Calvin Coolidge was famously known as a man of few
words. His nickname was “Silent Cal.”...
After decades of service to his country in both war and peace, George
Washington completed his...
George Washington’s father died when he was just eleven, and for
a time the young Washington had...
Abraham Lincoln was well known for total abstinence from
alcohol. According to one well known story...
“I’d rather be able to pray than be a great preacher; Jesus Christ
never taught His disciples how...
One day Abraham Lincoln’s Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton, came to him with
a wrathful letter...
“And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed
their only firm basis, a...
The story is told that Andrew Jackson’s boyhood friends just
couldn’t understand how he became a...
“Praying mothers are America’s greatest assets.”—Theodore
Roosevelt
“A mother’s lap is the best...
Abraham Lincoln’s casket was opened in 1901 because it was feared that his body was not there....
Roger Babson, an American historian, was visiting
the president of Argentina about one hundred...
“A young man whose father is a carpenter grows up
working in his father’s shop. He has no formal...
During
the Civil War someone reported to Abraham Lincoln that Edwin Stanton, one of the President’s...
Dwight Morrow, the father of Anne Morrow
Lindbergh, once held a dinner party to which Calvin...
President Wilson once received a call in the middle of the night from a
civil servant who informed...
President Lincoln had an early political rival named Edwin Stanton. He
called Lincoln the original...
“Let my heart gracious God, be so effected with Your glory and majesty,
that I may fulfill these...
“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is
trying to please everybody.”—Abraham...
“We
have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have
been preserved, these many...
