Age Quote by Ada Louise Huxtable

They all start competing against Lincoln as the greatest president. And the [library] building becomes the symbol, the memorial to that dream.

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

If you look at the history of presidential memorials, it takes a long time to get them done.

— Susan Eisenhower

But monument themselves memorials need.

— George Crabbe

“A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection;…

— Mark Twain

If you're going to come to D.C. and it's your first time here, see the view from the bottom of the Washington Monument, looking…

— Sean Doolittle

Our public monuments are memorials to the Enlightenment.

— Mason Cooley

The purpose of the memorial is to communicate the founding, expansion, preservation, and unification of the United States with colossal statues of Washington, Jefferson,…

— Gutzon Borglum

Words about Lincoln fill a small but ever-growing library.

— Fred Kaplan

I will make a prophecy that may now sound peculiar. In fifty years Lincoln's name will be inscribed close to Washington's on this Republic's…

— Carl Schurz

A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection;…

— Mark Twain

I'm not a Lincoln expert, rather a biographer who has had the pleasure of reading much of what has been written about him from…

— Fred Kaplan

The day will come - and it is not far off - when the legacy of Lincoln will finally be fulfilled at 1600 Pennsylvania…

— George H. W. Bush