Birthday Quote by Robert Orben

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

An adult friend of Lincoln's: "Life was to him a school.

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Words about Lincoln fill a small but ever-growing library.

— Fred Kaplan

“intellectual symbol of the development of the American Educational system under the 1862 Morrill Act of Abraham Lincoln”

— Clinton R. LeFort

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

— Fred Kaplan

What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.

— Mark Twain

“Mrs. Grant was with me in Washington at the time, and we were invited by President and Mrs. Lincoln to accompany them to the…

— Ulysses S. Grant

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 don't [even] know the number of books on Abraham Lincoln. Ten thousand, twelve thousand? I have seen various numbers. It seems like every…

— Eric Foner

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

There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him.

— Steven Spielberg

If I can educate a little, that's great; if I can cause somebody to go and seek out further information about Lincoln, that's excellent,…

— Noah Van Sciver