Lincoln Quotes

“His own deism allowed for a God who, having made the world, having made the world, did not participate in the working out of its ends, whose management of human destiny only inherited in his allowing the patterns and values established by His will to work themselves out in human affairs. Lincoln's response to his own question is to change his tone and focus.”
― Fred Kaplan, Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer

“Writing—the art of communicating thoughts to the mind, through the eye,” which, he had no doubt, “is the great invention of the world.”
― Fred Kaplan, Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer

“He became what his language made him.”
― Fred Kaplan, Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer

“His own deism allowed for a God who, having made the world, did not participate in the working out of its ends, whose management of human destiny only inherited in his allowing the patterns and values established by His will to work themselves out in human affairs. Lincoln's response to his own question is to change his tone and focus.”
― Fred Kaplan, Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer