Quote by 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

“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

Abraham Lincoln was, in my judgment, in many respects, the grandest man ever President of the United States. Upon his monument these words should…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“Abraham Lincoln would maintain that he had never been in favor “of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“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

“Assail me not with noble policy, for I care not at all for platitude. And surrender such tedious detail to greater minds than mine…

— Steve Earle

One of the things particularly admirable in the public utterances of President Lincoln is a certain tone of familiar dignity, which, while it is…

— James Russell Lowell

“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

“The question, he (Lincoln) said over and over, is not what a man's particular abilities may be, but what his rights are as a…

— Elton Trueblood

“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

“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

“On Lincoln: "A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.”

— James Russell Lowell