The most eloquent of American presidents, Lincoln seemed to have a comment sagacious or humorous on just about anything that mattered. This concise compendium offers his astute observations on a variety of subjects from women to warfare. Nearly 400 quotations include such thought-provoking and memorable remarks as:
Bad promises are better broken than kept.
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell; it is simply purgatory.
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Quotations are arranged chronologically within such topics as...