Stephen Douglas Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“Lincoln, Douglas and their contemporaries struggled to decide what the words “all men are created equal” really meant. Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln…

— Georgiann Baldino

Stephen A.Douglas was a risk-taker by temperament; I expect that Lincoln - Douglas debates represented another risk he just couldn't resist. He lived to…

— Allen C. Guelzo

“Lincoln had a masterful grasp of great subjects. He was able to look at events from all sides, so as to appreciate how they…

— Henry Ketcham

He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them;…

— Abraham Lincoln

There was nothing in all Douglas's powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always touched sympathetic cords. Lincoln's…

— Henry Villard

Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a…

— David Herbert Donald

“There’s an interesting story about Abraham Lincoln. During the American Civil War he signed an order transferring certain regiments, but Secretary of War Edwin…

— Patience Johnson

George Saunders's 'Lincoln in the Bardo' is a hands-down masterpiece - the subject of Abraham Lincoln and the genius of this author is a…

— Jeffrey Tambor

“I have found, though, that all the evidence shows that Douglas's conduct at the time, however impulsive and ill-advised, was honourable and courageous in…

— Rupert Croft-Cooke

“Contradiction is the perfect evidence, he (Lincoln) thought, of human fallibility.”

— Elton Trueblood

Lincoln is a genius of language and a brilliant writer who deserves to be seen as part of the canon of great writers in…

— Fred Kaplan

Whole swaths of the book [Lincoln in the Bardo] are made up of verbatim quotes from various historical sources, which I cut up and…

— George Saunders