Abraham Quote by Christopher Morley

Lincoln, answering friends who advised him to seek protection against assassination: "If they kill me the next man will be just as bad for…

— William Herndon

“The darkest day of my life was the day I heard of Lincoln's assassination. I did not know what it meant. Here was the…

— Ulysses S. Grant

He (Abraham Lincoln) said he wanted to visit the Holy Land and see those places hallowed by the footprints of the Saviour. He was…

— Mary Todd Lincoln

“Robert G. Elliott was not a murderous person by nature, but he proved, no doubt to his own surprise, to be rather good at…

— Bill Bryson

Lincoln believed in the American people.

— Steven Spielberg

“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

America remained a land of promise for lovers of freedom. Even Byron, at a moment when he was disgusted with Napoleon for not committing…

— Bertrand Russell

“For the first time in their memory, certainly since the earliest beginnings of the Civil War, Americans facing the shared tragedy of Garfield’s ordeal…

— Candice Millard

“My dad was a rebel. A half-destroyed history book hidden in his room, friends at his funeral I knew nothing about . . . a daughter…

— Kiera Cass

Abraham Lincoln was killed by the forces of white supremacy.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. - Abraham Lincoln”

— Peter Atkins

“His (Lincoln's) patriotism was saved from idolatry by the overwhelming sense of the sovereignty of God.”

— Elton Trueblood