College Quote by Eric Foner

“it is impossible to have any deep understanding of Lincoln’s speech without thinking about the context of the speech: a memorial service.) Here”

— Terry Marselle

“So much is buried in our lives that we forget what we have learned.”

— Harley King

“Lincoln’s most prominent feature—the perpetual look of sadness. He’d been to the battle fields, he’d read the prison reports. No wonder he was so…

— Katherine Lowry Logan

“If Abraham Lincoln were alive now, he'd roll over in his grave.”

— Gerald Ford

“Executive Mansion, Washington, Nov. 21, 1864. Dear Madam,-- I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant…

— Abraham Lincoln

“When we bury the old, we bury the known past, the past we imagine sometimes better than it was, but the past all the…

— Thomas Lynch

“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

“Memory is not an instrument for surveying the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is…

— Walter Benjamin

“There are some things I guess we bury so we can get on with living. I don't think it's wrong, necessarily, just what we…

— Nicole A. Seitz

“If Lincoln were alive today, he'd roll over in his grave.”

— Gerald Ford

“as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“What spares us is memory,” he said. “It’s what makes us worth saving. However low we sink, whatever promise we no longer fulfill, we…

— Frederick Weisel