I think John Coltrane is one of the great American heroes, like Abraham Lincoln and Emily Dickinson. — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
“What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.” — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge. — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“If I didn't have Lincoln's butt to stare at the whole time, motivation would be a lot harder to come by.” — Jessica Shirvington Copy Share Image
I'm not sure Lincoln would fare well if he were a presidential candidate today. — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and a half. I… — Evan Williams Copy Share Image
Messrs. Washington and Lincoln would be appalled and saddened by what their successor, President Obama, and the modern Democratic Party are doing… — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
“A major element in Lincoln's greatness was the way in which he could hold a strong moral position without the usual accompaniment… — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
“Don't know the manners of good society, eh? Well, I guess I know enough to turn you inside out, old gal—you sockdologizing… — Tom Taylor Copy Share Image
“The question, he (Lincoln) said over and over, is not what a man's particular abilities may be, but what his rights are… — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
I suppose I've been interested in Abraham Lincoln for almost as long as I can remember. My first Lincoln book was the… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
“Amid the greatest difficulties of my Administration, when I could not see any other resort, I would place my whole reliance in… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“If the spirited crowd expected a speech exalting recent Union victories, they were disappointed. In keeping with his lifelong tendency to consider… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
In my opinion, assassination theories will continue to revolve around these assassinations as they have around several other significant assassinations in American… — Louis Stokes Copy Share Image
“One voice was raised in dissent. A Springfield lawyer, a former member of Congress and longtime Whig named Abraham Lincoln, took up… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
I'm not a Lincoln expert, rather a biographer who has had the pleasure of reading much of what has been written about… — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
The hardest role that I've ever tried to play was Clara Johnson in 'Light in the Piazza' at Lincoln Center. It was… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
“Today, many people not only take the self for granted but struggle mightily to connect it to anything larger. In Lincoln’s time,… — Joshua Wolf Shenk Copy Share Image
“In the face of all this evidence, Wooden continued to insist that whatever violations had occurred on his watch were minor. “There’s… — Seth Davis Copy Share Image
“Lincoln had a masterful grasp of great subjects. He was able to look at events from all sides, so as to appreciate… — Henry Ketcham Copy Share Image
“With Lincoln, the line between their two selves is blurred. She bathes him and wipes off every bodily fluid, and he sticks… — Gin Phillips Copy Share Image
“Mary Lincoln was already in the audience. Before leaving the house that morning she had vigorously brushed Lincoln's coat, had laid out… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Lincoln has accepted America as a biracial society. He's talking about giving at least some black men the right to vote. In… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
There's been more written about Lincoln than movies made about him or television portraying him. He's kind of a stranger to our… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“In reference to the search for Lincoln's killers as it took to the Maryland swamps: "The method of searching the swamps is… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
“Frederick Douglass called Republicans the ‘Party of freedom and progress,’ and the first Republican president was Abraham Lincoln, the author of the… — Elbert Guillory Copy Share Image
Viewing the man from the genuine abolitionist ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed cold, tardy, weak and unequal to the task. But, viewing him… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
