Life Quote by Jessica Shirvington

“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

“Lincoln’s most prominent feature—the perpetual look of sadness. He’d been to the battle fields, he’d read the prison reports. No wonder he was so…

— Katherine Lowry Logan

“He was as tall as Lincoln and just as dead.”

— Joe Hill

“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

“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

“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

“The entire sky erupted into hundreds of streaks of light. I never felt so alive. I wished that you were here with me or…

— Katie McGarry

“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

“Lincoln matured best in sorrow.”

— Elton Trueblood

“He left everything he knew behind. Not because life was too short. But because when you lived it alone, it was too damn long.”

— R.G. Alexander

“God, Lincoln believed, is seen more clearly events that in nature, though He maybe seen there also. It is a majestic thing, thought Lincoln,…

— Elton Trueblood

“He saw his coming death, and wasn’t afraid of it anymore. He’d miss all the good stuff to follow, but he’d help make it…

— James S.A. Corey