Fifty Quote by Carl Schurz

“immortal words of Lincoln nurtured and guarded by a grateful people, this spot for all time to come cannot be other than the nation’s…

— Matilda Pierce Alleman

Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Lincoln is distinguished from every other president, with the exception of Jefferson, in that we can be certain that he wrote every word to…

— Fred Kaplan

The name of Abraham Lincoln is imperishable.

— Matthew Simpson

“From the prophets of Israel Lincoln had learned the note will idea that there can be serving people, with responsibility to the entire "family…

— Elton Trueblood

If there were nothing else of Abraham Lincoln for history to stamp him with, it is enough to send him with his wreath to…

— Walt Whitman

I think also there's no question that Lincoln has been diluted down through history in some way, almost by becoming as iconic as he…

— James Spader

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

I feel that we are on the eve of a new era, when there is to be great harmony between the Federal and Confederate.…

— Ulysses S. Grant

Lincoln, the Man of the People

— Edwin Markham

Lincoln did but pour the soul of the nation into the monumental act of universal liberty; and that soul was inspired by the gospel.

— Edward Thomson