#lincoln

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs. For my own people, it was important to imagine him as the Great Emancipator, the Moses who led us out of slavery. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of his own prejudices and became what many would consider the first black man's president. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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Lincoln's removal from New Salem to Springfield and his entrance into a law partnership with Major John T. Stuart begin a distinctively new period in his career. ↗

— John George Nicolay

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Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them. ↗

— John George Nicolay

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The death of Mrs. Lincoln was a serious loss to her husband and children. Abraham's sister Sarah was only eleven years old, and the tasks and cares of the little household were altogether too heavy for her years and experience. ↗

— John George Nicolay

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When I was a child I had a crush on Abraham Lincoln. Why I would choose to reveal this, I know not. ↗

— Julia Roberts

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Honda opened its first assembly line in Lincoln in November 2001. ↗

— Mike Rogers

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I was born on the day Lincoln was shot and the Titanic sank. ↗

— Pete Rose

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Lincoln had a tremendous capacity for personal growth - more than any other American President. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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Mr. Lincoln's elevation shows that in America every station in life may be honorable; that there is no barrier against the humblest; but that merit, wherever it exists, has the opportunity to be known. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

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