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Introduction
"Everybody in the world knows Pa used to split rails." April 1865, page 230.
"the short and simple annals of the poor." Lincoln, page 19.
"The dogmas of the quiet past..." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, page 415.
Chapter 1
"anywhere and everywhere that lines could be drawn." "Lincoln, Abraham." Britannica Student Encyclopedia. 2006. Encyclopędia Britannica Online. 7 Jan. 2006 <http://0-www.search.eb.com.library.uor.edu:80/ebi/article-203857>.
"pulled a trigger on any larger game." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, page 161.
"from that time until his twenty-third year..." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, page 161.
"be good and kind to their father..." Lincoln, page 28.
"the best boy I ever saw or ever expect to see." Lincoln, page 28.
"grubbed, plowed, mowed, and worked..." Herndon's Life of Lincoln, page 39.
"whenever Abe had a chance in the field..." Herndon's Life of Lincoln, page 39.
"The accounts of battlefields and struggles for the liberty of the country..." Lincoln's Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, page 209.
"When he came across a passage..." Lincoln, page 30.
"Abraham Lincoln is my name..." Lincoln, page 30.
"an ant's life was to it as sweet as ours to us." Lincoln, page 27.
"My how he could chop..." With Malice Toward None, page 10.
"My father taught me to work..." Herndon's Life of Lincoln, page 38.
"A dollar in less than a day..." Lincoln, page 34.
"with intent to rob and kill." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, page 162.
"I couldn't bear to lose my dog." Lincoln, page 36.
Chapter 2
"negroes in chains, whipped and scourged." Herndon's Life of Lincoln, page 63.
"a piece of floating driftwood." Herndon's Life of Lincoln, page 39.
"He was always at home wherever he went." Honor's Voice, page 93.
"all were amazed." Honor's Voice, page 70.
"thoughtful and investigating mind..." Herndon's Life of Lincoln, page 39.
"I am young and unknown to many of you..." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, page 5.
"I have no [ambition] so great.." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, page 5.
"gave me more pleasure..." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, page 107.
"had a good many bloody struggles with mosquitoes." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, page 214.
"My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance." Herndon's Life of Lincoln, page 86.
"didn't meet his shoes by six inches..." Herndon's Life of Lincoln, page 86.
"Boys, if that is all, I am sure of your votes." Lincoln, page 52.
Chapter 3
"mixed in surveying work." Lincoln's Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, page 165.
"reached nearly from the window to the ground." Herndon's Life of Lincoln, p 162.
"I am quite as lonesome..." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, p. 18-19.
"gloomy and melancholy a face" Herndon's Life of Lincoln, page 148.
"You are perfectly welcome to share a room with me." Herndon's Life of Lincoln, page 148.
"Well, Speed, I'm moved!" Herndon's Life of Lincoln, page 149.
"an undecided experiment..." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings, 1832-1858, page 31.
"Reverence for the law..." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, page 32.
"the institution [of slavery] is founded on both injustice and bad policy." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, p. 18.
"saw no good objection.." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, p. 37.
"deficient in those little links..." Herndon's Life of Lincoln, page 119.
"I have now come to the conclusion..." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, p. 39.
"listen and gaze on her..." Herndon's Life of Lincoln, page 166.
"I am destined to marry a president." Herndon's Life of Lincoln, page 166.
"If what I feel were equally distributed..." Herndon's Life of Lincoln, page 170.
"two Cat fits and a Duck fit." Lincoln, page 88.
"crazy as a loon." Honor's Voice[ ital ends], page 225.
"Cavalry broadswords of the largest size..." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, p. 102.
"Nothing new here..." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, page 105.
"an extraordinary receptacle..." Herndon's Life of Lincoln, page 254.
"Well, in the absence of anything else..." Lincoln, page 147.
"the ungodliest figure I ever saw." Herndon's Life of Lincoln, page 280.
"dear rascals." Lincoln at Home, page 73.
"I was about as badly scared..." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, p. 160.
"he kept the House in a continuous roar of merriment." Lincoln, page 130.
"Naturally anti-slavery..." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, page 585.
"ten or a dozen slaves, shackled together with irons..." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, page 360.
"How hard it is to die..." We Are Lincoln Men, page 46.
"losing interest in politics." Lincoln's Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, page 108.
Chapter 4
"We began by declaring.... Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, page 339.
"a sacred thing, which no ruthless hand..." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, page 312.
"I would not trouble myself with the oyster laws..." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, page 327.
"Americans south as well as north, shall we make no effort to arrest this?" Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, page 339.
"With me, the race of ambition..." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, page 384.
"pick up my lost crumbs." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, page 358.
"revolutionize through the ballot box." Herndon's Life of Lincoln, page 309.
"Stranger, do you know where Lincoln lives?" Herndon's Life of Lincoln, page 475.
"The Dred Scott decision is erroneous..." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, page 393.
"lawful in all the states..." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, page 426.
"In my opinion, it will not cease..." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, page 426.
"I shall have my hands full..." Lincoln, page 209.
"bursts and sends red-hot nails in every direction." Stephen A. Douglas, page 499.
"stood square on his feet..." Herndon's Life of Lincoln, page 333.
"made this government..." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, page 503.
"instituted to secure the blessings of freedom..." through "he is my equal..." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, pages 495-536.
"each state having the right to prohibit, abolish, or sustain slavery." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, page 776.
"It is the only thing that has ever threatened the existence of this Union." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, page 808.
"He who would be no slave..." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, page 19.
"I feel like the boy who stumped his toe..." With Malice Toward None, page 160.
"I now sink out of view, and shall be forgotten." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, page 831.
"Talk! Talk! Talk!..." Battle Cry of Freedom, page 203.
"Let us not be slandered..." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings, 1859-1865, page 130.
"I will be entirely frank. The taste is in my mouth a little." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, page 154.
"There is a little woman at our house..." Lincoln, page 251.
"All the ladies like whiskers..." Lincoln, page 258.
"Mary, we are elected!" Team of Rivals, page 278.
Chapter 5
"my very interesting..." Lincoln, page 274.
"a very poor hater." Lincoln As I Knew Him, page 80.
"The tug has to come..." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, page 190.
"The people of the South..." Battle Cry of Freedom, page 230.
"long-armed ape" Lincoln, page 186.
"The South is determined to maintain her position..." Battle Cry of Freedom, page 259.
"If I live, I'm coming back some time..." Herndon's Life of Lincoln, page 390.
"To this place and the kindness of these people..." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, page 199.
"We were seriously disappointed..." Civil War Times, February 2002, page 34.
"He didn't act like a president!" Civil War Times, February 2002, page 34.
"If this country cannot be saved..." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, page 213.
"like 20,000 drowned cats!" With Malice Toward None, page 249.
"In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen..." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, page 223-24.
"against its own domestic foes." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, page 250.
"But they are green, too. You are all green alike." Battle Cry of Freedom, page 336.
"Why don't they come?" Lincoln As I Knew Him, page 216.
Chapter 6
"The Doll Jack is pardoned by order of the President," With Malice Toward None, page 288.
"It would stink in the land..." Lincoln, page 313.
"Victory or Death..." Lincoln, page 271.
"If I ever found a man homelier looking than I was..." Abe Lincoln Laughing, page 20-21.
"They might have stayed to see the shooting!" Lincoln's War, page 150.
"I will hold McClellan's horse if he will only bring us success." Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America, page 97.
"The people are impatient." Lincoln, page 330.
"if General McClellan did not want to use the army..." Lincoln, page 330.
"So has ended a brilliant week's campaign of the President," Lincoln, page 351.
"than a first-rate clerk." Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America, page 114.
"if slavery is not wrong, then nothing is wrong." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, page 585.
"think anew and act anew." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, page 415.
"I see the President almost every day," Norton Reader, page 79.
"a little uncomfortable..." Lincoln, page 547.
"about come to the conclusion..." Lincoln's Sanctuary, page 43.
"our last shriek on the retreat." Battle Cry of Freedom, page 505.
"We are whipped again" We Are Lincoln Men, page 192.
"In giving freedom to the slave..." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, page 415.
"We shout with joy..." With Malice Toward None, page 320.
"What is all this..." Lincoln's War, page 220.
Chapter 7
"My God! What will the country say?" Lincoln Observed, page 242.
"Go forward, and give us victories," Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, page 434.
"I am a slow walker but I never walk back," With Malice Toward None, page 339.
"sickened at the sight of blood," With Malice Toward None, page 332.
"The black man..." Lincoln: An Illustrated Biography, page 157.
"with silent tongue, and clenched teeth..." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, page 499.
"I can't take men out and kill them..." With Malice Toward None, page 357.
"Lee's Army, and not Richmond..." Lincoln, page 439.
"the whole country is our soil!" Lincoln's Sanctuary, page 104.
"We had them within our grasp...If I had gone up there..." Lincoln's Sanctuary, pages 105-06.
"Grant is my man and I am his..." Battle Cry of Freedom, page 638.
"The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, page 498.
"My dear Wife..." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, page 489.
"like a duck hit on the head" Battle Cry of Freedom, page 177.
"What can I do with such generals as we have?" With Malice Toward None, page 361.
"Four score and seven years ago..." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, page 536.
"That speech won't scour." Lincoln, page 465.
"now I have something I can give to them all!" Lincoln, page 467.
"He's a good turkey..." Reelecting Lincoln, page 72.
Chapter 8
"never cackles until the egg is laid." Battle Cry of Freedom, page 586.
"drive his head through a brick wall." Battle Cry of Freedom, page 721.
"There will be no turning back." Lincoln's War, page 363.
"Grant is a butcher!" Behind the Scenes, page 133.
"Many a poor mother, Mary..." Behind the Scenes, page 121.
"Get down, you fool, before you get shot!" Lincoln's Sanctuary, page 140.
"I am going to be beaten..." Reelecting Lincoln, page 267.
"Don't swap horses in the middle of a stream." Mr. Lincoln's Washington, page 235.
"Atlanta is ours and fairly won" Battle Cry of Freedom, page 774.
"Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!" The Civil War, page 223.
"She is more anxious than I." Reelecting Lincoln, page 351.
"great moral victory." With Malice Toward None, page 405-406.
"Hold on with a bull-dog grip[e]..." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, page 620.
"With malice toward none..." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, page 687.
"There is no man in the country..." Frederick Douglass: Autobiographies, page 804.
"a sacred effort." Frederick Douglass: Autobiographies, page 804.
"Tad and I are both well..." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, page 692.
"Let them all go, officers and all..." Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America, page 193.
"It seems to me that I have been dreaming..." Battle Cry of Freedom, page 846.
"Don't kneel to me..." Herndon's Life of Lincoln, page 424.
"I think we are near the end at last," We Are Lincoln Men, page 175.
"Boom, boom, boom went the guns," Lincoln Observed, page 182.
"one of the best tunes I have ever heard," Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, page 696.
"That is the last speech he will ever make!" Battle Cry of Freedom, page 852.
"no pass is necessary now..." Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, page 702.
"Dear husband, you almost startle me..." Lincoln, page 593.
"And well may I feel so..." Lincoln, page 593.
"The President and his Lady will be at the Theatre this evening." Norton Reader, page 789.
"The president has been shot!" With Malice Toward None, page 431.
"Sic semper tyrannis..." Lincoln, page 597.
"Hang him!" Mr. Lincoln's Washington, page 446.
"The president is no more," Lincoln, page 599.
"Now he belongs to the ages," Lincoln, page 599.
"The whole world bowed their heads in grief..." Behind the Scenes, page 191.
"Die when I may..." Herndon's Life of Lincoln, page 425.
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