Popular sovereignty Quote by Allen C. Guelzo

“Bleeding Kansas and the Caning of Charles Sumner   The reaction to the Kansas-Nebraska Act was intense, and in many ways violent. In the…

— Lance T. Stewart

One thing which Stephen A. Douglas was temperamentally incapable of doing was admitting he was wrong. He always believed that 'popular sovereignty' - the…

— Allen C. Guelzo

Lincoln was the Twain of our politics.

— Fred Kaplan

I had not got over the prejudice against Lincoln with which my personal contact with him in 1858 imbued me.

— Henry Villard

“After the Lincoln-Douglas debates made Lincoln a nationally recognized politician, Illinois papers began to mention Lincoln as a Republican candidate for President throughout 1859. …

— Charles River Editors

“When Lincoln was running for the House of Representatives from Illinois, he was charged with being “a scoffer at religion,” wrote the historian William…

— Jon Meacham

“There is nothing you cannot be do or have-- Abraham Hicks”

— Christopher F. Edwards Jr and Carlos O. Hardy

“FROM THE OUTBREAK OF THE WAR, Abraham Lincoln recognized the pivotal role of Kentucky, a centrally located buffer state between North and South. “I…

— Ron Chernow

“F.S. Nariman rightly found some similarity between the decision of the ADM Jabalpur and that of Dred Scott, rendered more than a century ago…

— Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly

“Lincoln characterized Stephen Douglas's argument as "a specious and fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse chestnut to be…

— Abraham Lincoln

“Over the course of his career, Abraham Lincoln had a staggering record of lost elections and public-office failures. For the ungainly lawyer from Illinois,…

— Jeff Olson

“If the spirited crowd expected a speech exalting recent Union victories, they were disappointed. In keeping with his lifelong tendency to consider all sides…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin