America Quote by Gregory Peck

I admire Lincoln enormously and I think what's interesting about Lincoln is how he changes, it's not that he held the same view throughout…

— Eric Foner

Lincoln is me. He is America. He is what makes us a great nation and a dangerous nation, all wrapped up in one man.

— Bill Oberst Jr

I've done my share of reading about Abraham Lincoln, throughout my life, and he wasn't always carved in stone. He was a human being.…

— Billy Campbell

Lincoln is such an iconic figure in American history. He seems to reflect so many elements of American culture that we consider essential, whether…

— Eric Foner

I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt about what was…

— David Herbert Donald

“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 not all brooding and melancholy and patient understanding. There was a hard core in him, and plenty of toughness. He could…

— Bruce Catton

Lincoln would love the fact that Obama is such a great conciliator, trying to transcend ideology.

— Henry Louis Gates

“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

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

For me, Lincoln is like just a handful of people - a Gandhi, or a Picasso, or a Martin Luther King Jr. - who…

— Barack Obama

Mr. Lincoln was generous by nature, and though his whole heart was in the war, he could not but respect the valor of those…

— Elizabeth Keckley