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“From almost the moment the Civil War ended, Gettysburg has been widely viewed as one of the decisive turning points of the Civil War.…

— Charles River Editors

“Maybe it’s true that the people who live through the times that become history’s pivotal points are those least likely to understand them. I…

— Jean Hegland

“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

“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

“There’s an interesting story about Abraham Lincoln. During the American Civil War he signed an order transferring certain regiments, but Secretary of War Edwin…

— Patience Johnson

“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

“Over the course of his career, Abraham Lincoln had a staggering record of lost elections and public-office failures. For the ungainly lawyer from Illinois,…

— Jeff Olson

“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

I'm not sure Lincoln would fare well if he were a presidential candidate today.

— David Herbert Donald

“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’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

“Lincoln said that “folks are usually about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

— Orison Swett Marden