Abraham lincoln Quote by Georgiann Baldino

I would say one thing writing this book [Lincoln in the Bardo] did for me was underscore the fact that this issue [all men…

— George Saunders

“Lincoln characterized Stephen Douglas's argument as "a specious and fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse chestnut to be…

— Abraham Lincoln

“But one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish.…

— Jessica James

“In 1856 the Know-Nothings even ran a former president, Millard Fillmore, as their presidential candidate. "Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr

“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

“You do not know the dishonest purposes of these men as well as I do,” Douglas told Lincoln of the secessionists. “If I were…

— Scott Farris

There was nothing in all Douglas's powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always touched sympathetic cords. Lincoln's…

— Henry Villard

When our Founding Fathers wrote the historic words 'all men are created equal,' they probably didn't have people like me in mind.

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. —ABRAHAM LINCOLN As”

— Anonymous

“His own deism allowed for a God who, having made the world, having made the world, did not participate in the working out of…

— Fred Kaplan

“On the side of the Union,” Lincoln said, it is a struggle for maintaining in the world, that form, and substance of government, whose…

— Allen C. Guelzo

“Lincoln was “the most truly progressive man of the age, because he always moves in conjunction with propitious circumstances, not waiting to be dragged…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin