Abraham Quote by Anonymous

“Man’s glory lies not, Lincoln thought, in ‘his goodness,’ for this is often nonexistent. He derives glory, instead, from his being made in the…

— Anonymous

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself, who would not exchange the finest show for the…

— James Russell Lowell

“The world did not appreciate Abraham Lincoln until he died. His great figure has been looming higher each succeeding decade. We understand Jesus better…

— Charles Jefferson

Viewing the man from the genuine abolitionist ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed cold, tardy, weak and unequal to the task. But, viewing him from the…

— Frederick Douglass

“The ambition to establish a reputation worthy of the esteem of his fellows so that his story could be told after his death had…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Mr. Lincoln was not only a great President, but a great man - too great to be small in anything. In his company I…

— Frederick Douglass

No president in history has been more vilified or was more vilivied during the time he was President than Lincoln. Those who knew him,…

— Richard M. Nixon

A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Everything which made Abraham Lincoln the loved and honored man he was, it is in the power of the humblest American boy to imitate.”

— New York Times April 19 1865

“A major element in Lincoln's greatness was the way in which he could hold a strong moral position without the usual accompaniment of self-righteousness.”

— Elton Trueblood

Abraham Lincoln was not all brooding and melancholy and patient understanding. There was a hard core in him, and plenty of toughness. He could…

— Bruce Catton