Admire Quote by Eric Foner

For me, Lincoln is like just a handful of people - a Gandhi, or a Picasso, or a Martin Luther King Jr. - who…

— Barack Obama

I've done my share of reading about Abraham Lincoln, throughout my life, and he wasn't always carved in stone. He was a human being.…

— Billy Campbell

Whenever you think of Lincoln as a historian, in his own mind, he becomes the Great Emancipator. This is his role in history henceforth.…

— Eric Foner

My feeling about him is that the America that we have today, the freedoms we enjoy and the privileges we have, are really the…

— Gregory Peck

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

The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time…

— David Herbert Donald

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

There's been more written about Lincoln than movies made about him or television portraying him. He's kind of a stranger to our industry, to…

— Steven Spielberg

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

I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt about what was…

— David Herbert Donald

“Lincoln had a masterful grasp of great subjects. He was able to look at events from all sides, so as to appreciate how they…

— Henry Ketcham

But having said all of that, that still doesn't account for a lot of the increase in popularity which stems, I think, from Lincoln's…

— David Herbert Donald