Aids Quote by William Lee Miller

Corporate organization in American business and commerce was already well under way by the time Abraham Lincoln became president. But all the evidence from…

— Allen C. Guelzo

Lincoln was a modernizer, so to speak. He believed in economic development. As a Whig before the war he favored what we would call…

— Eric Foner

Remember that Abraham Lincoln was a Whig far longer than he was a Republican. As a whole, the Whigs looked upon banks and corporations…

— Allen C. Guelzo

Republicans controlled the federal government for decades after the Civil War, and their policies funneled wealth upward -- with dire consequences. In 1893, the…

— Heather Cox Richardson

Lincoln was the spokesman of the rising capitalist class of the North, who viewed the emancipation of Negro slaves as indispensable to the development…

— A. Philip Randolph

Lincoln had a tremendous capacity for personal growth - more than any other American President.

— Henry Louis Gates

Corporations did not achieve the scale we normally associate with them until the 1880s; but it's still hard to imagine that Abraham Lincoln would…

— Allen C. Guelzo

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

“What the administration was now bargaining and trading with was land grants, especially to the railroad companies, something Lincoln understood well.  He and his…

— Keith R. Baker

Abraham Lincoln did speak about keeping the man before the dollar, but he was talking at that moment about slavery, and referring to keeping…

— Allen C. Guelzo

I see some parallels between then [Lincoln's era] and now. Certainly the division of ideologies between two parties, the Democratic Party and the Republican…

— Steven Spielberg

I don't know that there has ever been a time when Abraham Lincoln didn't stand head-and-shoulders above all other presidents in the historians' eye.…

— Allen C. Guelzo