Humor Quote by Calvin Trillin

“They took it for more than it was, or anyhow for more than it said; the container was greater than the thing contained, and…

— Shelby Foote

“He was as tall as Lincoln and just as dead.”

— Joe Hill

Lincoln sees slavery in some ways as a theft of labor. A slave is a laborer who is being denied the fruits of his…

— Eric Foner

Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.

— L. Neil Smith

“Lincoln, who had a personal aversion to blacks and feared they could never be absorbed into a white society, wanted to see them settled…

— James A. Michener

Out of the west came Lincoln, and all that he had he gave to the preservation of the Union that had been bought so…

— Gutzon Borglum

I have read where Abraham Lincoln said he wasn't interested in freeing the slaves.

— Malcolm X

...So Englishmen saw it. Lincoln's insincerity was regarded as proven by two things: his earlier denial of any lawful right or wish to free…

— Sheldon Vanauken

“Lincoln replied that he was more than willing to die, but that he had “done nothing to make any human being remember that he…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“darling Eloise. You own the space you take up in this world. Abraham Lincoln said, ‘You have to do your own growing, no matter…

— Stacey Ballis

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy…

— Henry Louis Gates

Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors.

— Robert Green Ingersoll