#lincoln

Jesus and Lincoln, Moses and Jefferson can seem so long gone, so unbelievable, so dead. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#gone #jefferson #jesus #lincoln #long

Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#ballot #before #believe #bullet #got

If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln. ↗

— Sam Waterston

#abraham lincoln #i #like #lincoln #typecast

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#enemies #enemy #friend #friends #friendship

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#get #great #had #his #known

Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot. ↗

— Elihu Root

#get #lincoln #men #ought #out

No man made great by death offers more hope to lowly pride than does Abraham Lincoln; for while living he was himself so simple as often to be dubbed a fool. ↗

— Thomas Vernor Smith

#abraham lincoln #death #does #dubbed #fool

Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln. ↗

— Bruce Barton

#back #before #give #hope #lincoln

What I thought we ought to try to do in a book like this is to focus closely on Lincoln, himself, to see what he knew, how he knew it, how he came to make the decisions that he did, and how he implemented them. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#came #closely #decisions #did #focus

Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village. ↗

— John George Nicolay

#among #attractive #elements #equally #fair