Abraham Quote by John Ortberg

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

I've always wanted to tell a story about Lincoln. I saw a paternal father figure; I saw someone who was completely, stubbornly committed to…

— Steven Spielberg

There's been more written about Lincoln than movies made about him or television portraying him. He's kind of a stranger to our industry, to…

— Steven Spielberg

There are so many books out about Abraham Lincoln out now because it's the bicentennial of his birth. I've known a lot about the…

— Aaron Dessner

A recommendation to scholars: Write only one book about Lincoln; give it your best shot, and then move on.

— Fred Kaplan

The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time…

— David Herbert Donald

I'm not a Lincoln expert, rather a biographer who has had the pleasure of reading much of what has been written about him from…

— Fred Kaplan

Lincoln was a man who created himself from nothing without any help from outside or other people. I followed his struggles. I see certain…

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

“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

“{ When Abraham Lincoln was 26 years old in 1835, he wrote a defense of Thomas Paine 's deism; a political associate, Samuel Hill,…

— Roy Basler

Whenever you think of Lincoln as a historian, in his own mind, he becomes the Great Emancipator. This is his role in history henceforth.…

— Eric Foner

The best one-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln is still Benjamin Thomas's 1952 biography. David Donald's 1995 biography is a close second, and close enough…

— Allen C. Guelzo