Civil war Quote by Jean Hegland

“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

“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

“If at first you don't succeed, just study the life of Abraham Lincoln.”

— John Wright

“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

“If the spirited crowd expected a speech exalting recent Union victories, they were disappointed. In keeping with his lifelong tendency to consider all sides…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Abraham Lincoln suffered through depression through his life and then suffered through the pain of conducting a civil war, and emerged with the sense…

— David Brooks

“The problem is that we tend too often to read Lincoln's growth backward, as an unproblematic trajectory toward a predetermined end. This enables scholars…

— Eric Foner

“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

“There wasn’t anything Lincoln wanted that he couldn’t afford. What did he really want, anyway? To buy new books when they came out in…

— Rainbow Rowell

“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

“I never understand these "the south will rise again" people. Again? It never rose before. It tried to and Lincoln stomped its ass.”

— T.J. Kirk

“I felt entangled now: this March, this South, this war, history. History could not possibly let the South get away with slavery; history would…

— Cynthia Bass