Ancestor Quote by Robert Green Ingersoll

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

I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild.

— Steven Spielberg

Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of…

— David Herbert Donald

Lincoln believed in the American people.

— Steven Spielberg

Mr. Lincoln was not only a great President, but a great man - too great to be small in anything. In his company I…

— Frederick Douglass

Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.

— L. Neil Smith

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

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

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

Lincoln is such an iconic figure in American history. He seems to reflect so many elements of American culture that we consider essential, whether…

— Eric Foner

Lincoln, the Man of the People

— Edwin Markham

Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the fact that…

— Seth Grahame-Smith