Coins Quote by John George Nicolay

Right after the Civil War there was considerable talk about reviving Lincoln's brief experiment with the Constitutional monetary system. Had not the European money-trust…

— W. Cleon Skousen

He obtained from Congress the right to borrow from the people by selling to it the 'bonds' of States ... and the Government and…

— Otto von Bismarck

Out of the west came Lincoln, and all that he had he gave to the preservation of the Union that had been bought so…

— Gutzon Borglum

To give credit to Lincoln for moral progression seems beyond the facts and unnecessary for our appreciation of this arguably greatest of all American…

— Fred Kaplan

“The public found that an ill-regulated and extravagant credit system, whilst it had made the few rich, had consigned to loss, ruin and poverty,…

— Adam Wasserman

The death of Lincoln was a disaster for Christendom. There was no man in the United States great enough to wear his boots and…

— Otto von Bismarck

In the North, the sale of government bonds was the one measure for raising funds that seemed to work. Even that, however, with the…

— G. Edward Griffin

“This, then, is a story of Lincoln’s political genius revealed through his extraordinary array of personal qualities that enabled him to form friendships with…

— 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

I think also there's no question that Lincoln has been diluted down through history in some way, almost by becoming as iconic as he…

— James Spader

But having said all of that, that still doesn't account for a lot of the increase in popularity which stems, I think, from Lincoln's…

— David Herbert Donald

“Napoleon was convinced his system of sound money could defeat the vaporous credit creation of the British. He felt that people would reject a…

— Kelly Mitchell