Quotes about Lincoln

You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.

The man [Grant] who more than any other, save Lincoln, had changed us into a nation whose citizens were all freemen, realized entirely that these freemen would remain free only while they kept mastery over their own evil passions.

He got off on Lincoln and slavery and dared any man there to deny that Lincoln and the negro and Moses and the children of Israel were the same, and that the Red Sea was just the blood that had to be spilled in order that the black race might cross into the Promised Land.

My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.

You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

If we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class.

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free."

Can you inform me, gentlemen, where General Grant procures his whisky? . . . Because if I can find out, I'll send a barrel of it to every General in the field!

Has it not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death?

He [President Abraham Lincoln] has a face like a hoosier Michael Angelo, so awful ugly it becomes beautiful, with its strange mouth, its deep-cut, criss-cross lines, and its doughnut complexion.