Quotes About Lincoln

His secretary heard Lincoln authoritatively remind a caller on November 15 that "this government possesses both the authority and the power to maintain its own integrity." Here was Jacksonian firmness to spare. "That, however, is not the ugly point of this matter," Lincoln added grimly. "The ugly point is the necessity of keeping the government by force, as ours ought to be a government of fraternity.

Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously.

Why should the Eisenhower memorial be over twice the size of WWII Memorial? Why should it be so vast as to comfortably house two Lincoln Memorials, two Washington Monuments, and two Jefferson Memorials - all six at once?

Abe Lincoln died because he stood for liberty and truth.

In the middle of the Civil War, Lincoln had decided it was time to make U.S. agriculture more efficient: each person not needed on the farm was another person freed up to do something else. That's why the Department of Agriculture was created in the first place, as a vast science lab.

The Emancipation Proclamation was the first great step. But it was two years later, near war's end, that Lincoln would throw his support behind the monumental Thirteenth Amendment, formally declaring the practice of slavery illegal, forever, throughout the United States.

I'm gonna take your mother back to Lincoln," I says. "I'm gonna get her a new coffin, a nice one, and a nice angel headstone. I'll put her in the ground real good and all at my expense." I expect Billy to smile or say thank you or something but she is looking hard at the wrapped quilt, thinking. There's a part of the dress, just a little bit of the hem

he had a family in Lincoln, all the way clean over in Nebraska. He'd even showed her the pictures in his wallet of his kids, two little boys in baseball uniforms

Lincoln is distinguished from every other president, with the exception of Jefferson, in that we can be certain that he wrote every word to which his name is attached.

The president was not the most important political player in the 19th century. Besides Jefferson at the beginning, Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln, the center of politics was Congress.

The greenback dollar was born from this action. Lincoln said, "The government should create, issue and circulate all the currency and credit needed to satisfy the spending power of the government and the buying

At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizing that there wasn't any military expertise, that the most anybody had commanded up to that point had been somebody, some troops in the Mexican War, and it had been years ago.

If the press really thinks Obama is Lincoln, they ought to treat him like they treated Bush, 'cause that's how they treated Lincoln. His critics compared Lincoln to an ape; they called him an illiterate baboon.

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

The value of Eric Foner's 'The Fiery Trial' lies in its comprehensive review of mostly familiar material; in its sensible evaluation of the full range of information already available about Abraham Lincoln and slavery; and in the deft thoroughness of its scholarship.

Once when they went horseback riding with other young couples, they came to a stream and all the other men helped their women across. But not Lincoln: he rode on alone and left Mary to fend for herself. She was miffed. Frankly, she thought he had terrible manners. And he was moody, too, and seemed never to have anything to say that was light and fun and tender. He never said much at all.

As Lincoln had predicted would happen under popular sovereignty, civil war now raged on the Kansas prairie—proof indeed that slavery was too volatile ever to be solved as a purely local matter.

In time Logan considered Lincoln "a pretty good lawyer" and taught him a great deal about the importance of painstaking preparation, of compiling an exact and thorough brief before defending a client in court.

But when Herndon took off on some "deep volume," like the writings of Immanuel Kant, Lincoln would wave it away as indigestible.

You know, Lincoln told Hay, that any other general but Grant would have fallen back across the Rapidan by now. "It is the dogged pertinacity of Grant that wins," Lincoln said.

Lincoln had good reason to speak of slavery strictly in terms of preserving the Union: they were the only terms the white public was likely to accept.

Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852. It became a publishing sensation. Lincoln was later wryly to remark to her: 'So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.' The South reacted with fury to her attack on slavery.

If Lincoln freed the slaves and preserved the Union, how come 'Lincolnesque' just means tall?

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 Civil War, but I'm just getting more into it.