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"If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference."
SOURCE: The Inner Life of Abraham Lincoln: Six Months at the White House by Francis B. Carpenter (Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 1995), pp. 258-259.
"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."
"If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said, I am, in height, six feet, four inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing, on an average, one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair, and grey eyes - no other marks or brands recollected."
Abraham Lincoln, in a brief biographical sketch, December 20, 1859.
Sources consulted in the creation of this site include: The Lincoln Reader edited by Paul M. Angle, The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, The Lincoln Enigma: The Changing Faces of an American Icon edited by Gabor Boritt, Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame, The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln by Michael Burlingame, Lincoln the Unknown by Dale Carnegie, Abraham Lincoln by Lord Charnwood, Lincoln's Lost Speech by Elwell Crissy, Lincoln by David Herbert Donald, Robert Todd Lincoln: A Man in his Own Right by John S. Goff, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin,
Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President by Allen C. Guelzo, Lincoln in Photographs: An Album of Every Known Pose by Charles Hamilton and Lloyd Ostendorf, Out of the Wilderness by William Hanchett, Life of Lincoln by William Herndon and Jesse Weik, Lincoln As I Knew Him: Gossip, Tributes & Revelations from His Best Friends and Worst Enemies edited by Harold Holzer,
Lincoln: An Illustrated Biography by Philip B. Kunhardt, Jr., Philip B. Kunhardt III, and Peter W. Kunhardt, Looking for Lincoln: The Making of an American Icon by Philip B. Kunhardt III, Peter W. Kunhardt, and Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr., The Last Lincolns: The Rise and Fall of a Great American Family by Charles Lachman, Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by Ward Hill Lamon, The Lincoln Herald published by Lincoln Memorial University Press,
Lincoln The Man by Edgar Lee Masters, Abraham Lincoln's Stories and Speeches edited by J. B. McClure, Largely Lincoln by David Chambers Mearns, Lincoln Day by Day edited by Earl Schenck Miers, Lincoln's Virtues by William Lee Miller, Memorial Record of the Nation's Tribute to Abraham Lincoln by B.F. Morris, The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia by Mark E. Neely, Jr.,
The Last Best Hope of Earth by Mark E. Neely, Jr., Life of Abraham Lincoln by Clifton M. Nichols, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln by John G. Nicolay, With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln by Stephen B. Oates, Lincoln in American Memory by Merrill D. Peterson, Did Lincoln Own Slaves? And Other Frequently Asked Questions About Abraham Lincoln by Gerald J. Prokopowicz,
Mr. Lincoln by J.G. Randall edited by Richard N. Current, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years by Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years by Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory by Barry Schwartz, The Farewell to Lincoln by Victor Searcher,
Lincoln: A Pictorial History by Edward Steers, Jr., Lincoln Legends: Myths, Hoaxes, and Confabulations Associated With Our Greatest President by Edward Steers, Jr., The Early Life of Abraham Lincoln by Ida M. Tarbell, Abraham Lincoln: From Skeptic to Prophet by Wayne C. Temple, Abraham Lincoln: A Biography by Benjamin P. Thomas, Lincoln's New Salem by Benjamin P. Thomas, Lincoln's Little Girl by Fred Trump, Lincoln's Boyhood by Francis Marion Van Natter,
Abraham Lincoln: His Life, Work, and Character edited by Edward Wagenknecht, Abraham Lincoln: Servant of the People by Carl E. Wahlstrom, The Shadows Rise: Abraham Lincoln and the Ann Rutledge Legend by John Evangelist Walsh, Lincoln's Youth: Indiana Years by Louis A. Warren, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills, Herndon’s Informants: Letters, Interviews, and Statements about Abraham Lincoln edited by Douglas A. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis,
Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln by Douglas L. Wilson, Lincoln Before Washington: New Perspectives on the Illinois Years by Douglas L. Wilson, Lincoln's Sword by Douglas L. Wilson, The Young Eagle by Kenneth J. Winkle, and Lawyer Lincoln by Albert A. Woldman.
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