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“Lincoln was equidistant from the heresy which makes a person believed that he can do nothing, and the opposite heresy which makes them suppose…

— Elton Trueblood

“As he had done so many times before, Lincoln withstood the storm of defeat by replacing anguish over an unchangeable past with hope in…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Not us, Vi. Everything else may end, but not us. What we have...We're endless." -Lincoln”

— Jessica Shirvington

“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

“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

“No one who has ever done anything worth doing has gone uncriticized. As regards the matter at hand (as regards him), I am, at…

— George Saunders

“The ambition to establish a reputation worthy of the esteem of his fellows so that his story could be told after his death had…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“It is most remarkable that Lincoln, when he saw so much that was vulnerable in the leadership of the Church, did not move to…

— Elton Trueblood

“There’s an interesting story about Abraham Lincoln. During the American Civil War he signed an order transferring certain regiments, but Secretary of War Edwin…

— Patience Johnson

“This, then, is a story of Lincoln’s political genius revealed through his extraordinary array of personal qualities that enabled him to form friendships with…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“When the speech concluded it was very late. One of Congressman Bachus’s aides took me back to the office to get Colston. We opened…

— Noah Galloway

“Lincoln's so efficient, especially for a guy who "bends rules".”

— Katie McGarry