Abraham LincolnThinkers

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

The Book is tasked with showing man that his original thoughts aren't very new after all.

The Book review can always be summed up thusly: People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

Character is able to be tested not by adversity, which nearly all man can stand, but by what he does if you give him power.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it... the tree is the real thing.

The Civil War is a war that was caused by the fact that slaves, making up a whole 1/8 of the entire population in the south, constituted a peculiar and powerful interest which threatened entrenched white interests.

Democracy is the notion that as I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master.

The Future , thankfully, comes only one day at a time.

Liberty is, in America, a word having always lacked a good definition. We all declare for liberty... but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

The Negro is guaranteed the rights of the declaration of independence for life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but like most other republicans, he opposed granting blacks the rights to vote, sit on juries, hold public office, or intermarry with whites.