Killing Lincoln Quotes

“If I am killed I can die but once,” he is fond of saying, “but to live in constant dread is to die over and over again.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

“In reference to the search for Lincoln's killers as it took to the Maryland swamps:

"The method of searching the swamps is simple yet arduous. First, the troops assemble on the edge of bogs with names like Allen’s Creek, Scrub Swamp, and Atchall’s Swamp, standing at loose attention in the shade of a thick forest of beech, dogwood, and gum trees. Then they form two lines and march straight forward, from one side to the other. As absurd as it seems to the soldiers, marching headlong into cold mucky water, there is no other way of locating Booth and Herold. Incredibly, eighty-seven of these brave men will drown in their painstaking weeklong search for the killers.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

“Put down your guns and go home. Let’s rebuild the nation together. This was President Lincoln’s vision, to which Grant subscribed.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

“General Grant's decision has now been made for him. After months and years of men obeying his every order, he bows to an even greater authority than the president of the United States: his wife.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

“Lincoln has become so addicted to the telegraph’s instant news from the front that he still can’t let go of the need for just one more bit of information, even though the prospect of another great battle is slim.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

“burned”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations,” the president intones humbly.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

“Ironically, John Wilkes Booth often rented this very room during the previous summer. In fact, as recently as three weeks ago, Booth lolled on the very bed in which Lincoln is now dying.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

“The American people are unique in that their considerable political passion is expressed at the ballot box, not through violence directed at their leaders, whom they can vote out of office.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

“It seems like the entire town is drunk. lee's Confederate army has surrendered. In the Union capital whiskey is chugged straight out of the bottle, church bells toll, pistols are fired into the air, fireworks explode, newsboys hawk final editions chock-full of details from Appomattox, brass bands play, church hymns are sung, thirty-five U.S. flags are hoisted, and army howitzers launch an astonishing five-hundred-gun salute, which shatters windows for miles around the city.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphans; to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and a lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.“—Last Words of President Lincoln’s Second Inaugural.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

“Killing those husbands and fathers and sons will impede the nation's healing.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

“Lincoln ( he prefers to go by just his last name. No one calls him “Abe“, which he loathes. Few call him “Mr. President“. His wife actually calls him “Mr. Lincoln“, and his two personal secretaries playfully refer to him as “the Tycoon“) paces the upper deck of the steamboat River Queen, his face lit now and again by distant artillery.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

“Grant for a very long time. The president appears so happy that”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

“So astonishing was his physique that another man unabashedly described young Abraham Lincoln as “a cross between Venus and Hercules.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

“So astonishing was his physique that another man unabashedly described young Abraham Lincoln as “a cross between Venus and”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

“and shocking, I kept on until I arrived in the East Room, which I entered. There I was met with a sickening surprise. Before me was a catafalque, on which rested a corpse wrapped in funeral vestments. Around it were stationed soldiers who were acting as guards. And there were a throng of people, some gazing mournfully upon the corpse, whose face was covered, others weeping pitifully. ‘Who is dead in the White House?’ I”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

“Lincoln telegraphs his heartfelt reply: 'Let the thing be pressed.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

“term.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

“but to live in constant dread is to die over and over again.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

“infantry, cavalry, and artillery begin slogging”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations,”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

“Let ’em up easy.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

“No drunken, saddened, addled, enraged citizens of Richmond so much as attacks Lincoln with their fists.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

“newer,”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

“Starvation, literal starvation, was doing its deadly work. So depleted and poisoned was the blood of many of Lee’s men from insufficient and unsound food that a slight wound which would probably not have been reported at the beginning of the war would often cause blood poison, gangrene, and death,” one Confederate general will later write.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever