#lincoln

It's going to be like an...aura, I guess." He looked down at me and raised an eyebrow. "Explain?" "Like even though there are outside forces pushing through the walls, in here it's like a bubble of goodness. Like coming home." I could feel him smiling and it encouraged me to elaborate. "When I think of how others would see it, I imagine them seeing a force of goodness overshadowing a force of evil, protecting it. ↗

— Jessica Shirvington

#jessica-shirvington #lincoln-wood #the-violet-eden-chapters #violet-eden #imagination

The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#atheism #bible

Contrary to his infallibly "honest" image, Abe wasn't above lying so long as it served a noble purpose. ↗

— Seth Grahame-Smith

#vampire #noble

I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt about what was going on around him. I felt the pressures that were on him. You can see what people were writing to him, how they were nudging him. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#about #acted #around #felt #going

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

— David Herbert Donald

#fare #i #lincoln #presidential #sure

Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#carefully #cons #could #debated #draw

Apart from that Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play? ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#did #enjoy #how #lincoln #mrs

Lincoln did more than any other man to put the stamp of righteousness, to put the stamp of compassion, on the name of America. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#any #compassion #did #lincoln #man

For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't know that George Washington would be a president today, I don't know that Abe Lincoln would, I don't know that Roosevelt would. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#ago #charisma #could #deserving #enormous

When I was a child I had a crush on Abraham Lincoln. Why I would choose to reveal this, I know not. ↗

— Julia Roberts

#abraham lincoln #child #choose #crush #had