I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.


Reply to Missouri Committee of Seventy (30 September 1864)

Abraham Lincoln Quotes

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other...

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other...

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other...

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other...