Abraham Lincoln Quotes

“Few will achieve his world historical importance, but many can profit from his personal example, encouraged by the knowledge that despite a childhood of emotional malnutrition and grinding poverty, despite a lack of formal education, despite a series of career failures, despite a woe-filled marriage, despite a tendency to depression, despite a painful midlife crisis, despite the early death of his mother and his siblings as well as of his sweetheart and two of his four children, he became a model of psychological maturity, moral clarity, and unimpeachable integrity. His presence and his leadership inspired his contemporaries; his life story can do the same for generations to come.”
― Michael Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln: A Life

“There is no hurt among all the human hurts deeper and less understandable than the loss of a parent when one is not yet an adolescent.”
― Michael Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln: A Life