Fall Quote by Edmund Wilson

“The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since being shot by Booth was to have fallen into the hands of Carl Sandburg.”

— Edmund Wilson

The worst thing to happen to Lincoln - aside from the unfortunate incident at Ford's theatre - was to fall into the hands of…

— Gore Vidal

Besides getting shot in the back of the head, do you know what else Abraham Lincoln did?

— Danny Mcbride

...I never heard him abuse an enemy. Some of the cruel things said about President Lincoln, particularly in the North, used to pierce him…

— Ulysses S. Grant

He raised his hands, not to strike, but in benediction. Lincoln was the grandest figure of the fiercest civil war. He is the gentlest…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave.

— Gerald R. Ford

“On the moonless night of April 14, 1865, days after a plot to blow up the White House failed, John Wilkes Booth killed President…

— Jane Singer

Why did John Wilkes Booth do it? In My Thoughts Be Bloody young historian Nora Titone is one of the few to have genuinely…

— Jay Winik

Killing Lincoln is a must-read historical thriller. Bill O'Reilly recounts the dramatic events of the spring of 1865 with such exhilarating immediacy that you…

— Vince Flynn

There is a great overlap of tragedy that played out through the generations of the Lincolns. That, coupled with the idea that many people…

— Michael Beschloss

“On the moonless night of April 14, 1865, days after a plot to blow up the White House failed, John Wilkes Booth killed President…

— Jane Singer

If only Al Sharpton were around, Lincoln would have known he was a victim of racism.

— Ann Coulter