92 Quotes by Harold Holzer

Public sentiment is everything, said Lincoln. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Lincoln said his spiky hair had "a way of getting up in the world".

Stephen Douglas's oratory was designed for the galleries, Lincoln's for his peers

Horace Greeley pursues temperance to extravagance." Lord Acton

One writer may speak of something more lasting than Horace Greeley when he writes of that editor that his secular philanthropy drifted into autocratic ambition.

Lincoln on a desire to hear Horace Greeley speak: "In print, every one of his words seems to weigh about a ton.

A writer at the time said, "Lincoln means to sink the man in the public officer.

One paper boasted that its subscription and advertising numbers proved that America did not need the social change it rival paper advocated.

Lincoln jibed that a general INVADED Canada without resistance and out-vaded it without pursuit.