Abraham Quote by Norman Corwin

Think for a moment of the great agents and engines of our civilization, and then think what shadowy ideas they all once were. The…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“He had laid his head back until his scalp had contacted his spine, that far back, and opened his throat, and a sound rose…

— Denis Johnson

“Lincoln was as calm and unruffled as the summer sea in moments of the gravest peril;”

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

There was nothing in all Douglas's powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always touched sympathetic cords. Lincoln's…

— Henry Villard

“a slow walker, but I never walk back. ABRAHAM LINCOLN”

— Cheryl Strayed

“Lincoln grew immeasurably as he came to think of himself as an “instrument of God’s will.”

— Anonymous

“Lincoln was equidistant from the heresy which makes a person believed that he can do nothing, and the opposite heresy which makes them suppose…

— Elton Trueblood

Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript, though maybe a…

— David Herbert Donald

“...for all its apparent speed, the ship was almost perfectly silent, and he experienced an enervating, eerie feeling, as though the ancient warship, mothballed…

— Iain M. Banks

And, finally, Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript. Though…

— David Herbert Donald

“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

“...and he realized that he missed the old days of sailing, the ship almost willowy and hesitant, responsive to winds and weathers - not…

— Jay Parini