Founding fathers Quote by Ethan Cross

“I see dead Presidents. Lincoln, Jefferson, Franklin, and Washington.”

— Nicole Fende

“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

“This was supposedly an Honors American History class, for seniors only. What deep, dark secrets of American History needed to be kept from younger…

— Melodie Starkey

“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

“And Lincoln, as would be evidenced throughout his presidency, was a master of timing.”

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Washington, Franklin, Madison, Hamilton, Adams, and Jefferson had imagined the American experiment coming to all sorts of bad ends. They never imagined the Federal…

— Walter A. McDougall

“He was as tall as Lincoln and just as dead.”

— Joe Hill

“The copy editors drank cheap beer and seemed kind of bitter. About everything. But Lincoln felt at home with them. They all read too…

— Rainbow Rowell

Lincoln, the Man of the People

— Edwin Markham

“Everything which made Abraham Lincoln the loved and honored man he was, it is in the power of the humblest American boy to imitate.”

— New York Times April 19 1865

“Lincoln grew immeasurably as he came to think of himself as an “instrument of God’s will.”

— Anonymous

“biography of the great American Benjamin Franklin.”

— Robin S. Sharma