“I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.” ~Abraham Lincoln” — George Ilian Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln was the father of a nation and had enormous beliefs that stood well. — Henry Kaufman Copy Share Image
“If at first you don't succeed, just study the life of Abraham Lincoln.” — John Wright Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge. — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
It is almost always a mistake to mention Abraham Lincoln. He always steals the show. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Abraham Lincoln would maintain that he had never been in favor “of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.” Abraham Lincoln” — Rriiver Nyile Copy Share Image
George Washington sets the nation on its democratic path. Abraham Lincoln preserves it. Franklin Roosevelt sees the nation through depression and war. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
No man made great by death offers more hope to lowly pride than does Abraham Lincoln; for while living he was himself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is to such men as Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson and Jackson and Franklin, all most lowly born, that we owe most… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln is resolute, honest, has the best interest of the nation at heart, and he's as ugly as homemade Sunday sin,… — Bill Oberst Jr Copy Share Image
The situation Abraham Lincoln faced was unique. In his view, the United States was threatened with destruction, ruin, overthrow, perishing - all… — William Lee Miller Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln - the spirit incarnate of those who won victory in the Civil War - was the true representative of this… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“You don't get drown by falling into a river. You get drown by remaining there. Falling accidentally and rising immediately was what… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The best one-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln is still Benjamin Thomas's 1952 biography. David Donald's 1995 biography is a close second, and… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
“In 1863, Abraham Lincoln declared two Thanksgivings. One was held in August. The second, held in November, was to give thanks for… — Linda Bozzo Copy Share Image
It would be pleasant to believe that some of Lincoln's DNA is actively swimming around in somebody's soup, but all the evidence… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln because he was a man filled with great compassion who believed that all men are created free and equal, and… — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
A lot of it was, you know, you look for moments where, for instance, we were dependent on Abraham Lincoln making sure… — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
“He was a secretive man, who kept his own counsel. He was an ambitious man of humble origins, with colossal designs on… — Daniel Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
I've done my share of reading about Abraham Lincoln, throughout my life, and he wasn't always carved in stone. He was a… — Billy Campbell Copy Share Image
I don't know that there has ever been a time when Abraham Lincoln didn't stand head-and-shoulders above all other presidents in the… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
“Campbell was an ordinary-looking man, but he was extravagantly costumed in a uniform of his own design. He wore a white ten-gallon… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“Over the course of his career, Abraham Lincoln had a staggering record of lost elections and public-office failures. For the ungainly lawyer… — Jeff Olson Copy Share Image
I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Historians tell a story about Abraham Lincoln, that while returning to Washington from Springfield, he forced his entire party to stop to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“any time I feel like quitting, I just look at a framed poster I have hanging in our office: • He failed in… — Mona Lisa Harding Copy Share Image
“Historians have been quick to pounce on the blind spots in Grant’s report. Less noticed is that he almost immediately recanted what… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“The most sanctified figure in American historiography is, by no accident, the Great Saint of centralizing "democracy" and the strong unitary nation-state:… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity.… — Deborah Nazemi Copy Share Image
“The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both *may*… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“There’s an interesting story about Abraham Lincoln. During the American Civil War he signed an order transferring certain regiments, but Secretary of… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
“It was not until the year 1808 that Great Britain abolished the slave trade. Up to that time her judges, sitting upon… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“But where Lincoln’s absent hand was felt most keenly was in race relations. Black codes were passed in state after state across… — Jay Winik Copy Share Image
