Abraham Quote by H. L. Mencken

“Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was 272 words and he delivered it under three minutes. He labored on it for days. The "featured speaker," Edward Everett,…

— David Herbert Donald

One hundred and fifty years after Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, equality for many Americans remains elusive.

— Mike Quigley

“Abraham Lincoln, perhaps the most loved president of the United States, was also the most criticized president. Probably no politician in history had worse…

— John C. Maxwell

Even the written history [of Abraham Lincoln's times] is poorly understood by most people.

— George Saunders

One of the things that you learn, having been in this [President's] office for four years, is the old adage of Abraham Lincoln's. That…

— Barack Obama

I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes always to…

— Walt Whitman

To most readers the word 'fiction' is an utter fraud. They are entirely convinced that each character has an exact counterpart in real life…

— Louis Auchincloss

The first time I heard Ron Whitehead read I felt what I imagine those who heard Abraham Lincoln deliver The Gettysburg Address felt.

— David Amram

A Philadelphia museum has rejected a request to test its sample of Abraham Lincoln's blood to see if the 16th president had a rare…

— Seth Meyers

When I need to stretch my legs, I can walk across the street to the museum and relax among the illustrations of Abraham Lincoln's…

— Allen C. Guelzo

I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as…

— Edward Everett

But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled…

— Abraham Lincoln

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

— Abraham Lincoln

it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.

— Ernest Hemingway

People of a television culture need “plain language” both aurally and visually, and will even go so far as to require it in some…

— Neil Postman