Stump the German

[Eva Elisabeth]

"The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats."

It was not Abraham Lincoln who said this, but Lincoln may have agreed. Also on:

"Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose."

...and:

"Example is leadership."

The person received an honorary doctorate of laws from the University of Chicago, and once urged the president:

"May it be given to us both to see the day when the world's people will realize that the fate of all humanity is now at stake, and that it is urgently necessary to make the bold decisions that can deal adequately with the agonizing situation in which the world now finds itself."

Without asking the Google - who?