Then how about this: Remember Austin Gallagher, because what we do matters, even if we don't end up in history books.

— Deborah Hopkinson

There are but two types of men who desire war: those who haven’t the slightest intention of fighting it themselves, and those who haven’t the slightest idea what it is. … Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.

— Seth Grahame-Smith

There was a touch of prairie about the fellow.--Hans volcanoes.--roger begins iii Like stepping into a summer barn late at night.--Hans volcano a musty plains' office, where some bright candle still burns.--roger begins iii Vast. Windswept. New. Sad.--Hans vollmanSpacious. Curious. Doom-minded. Ambitious.--roger begins iii Back slightly out.--Hans vollmanRight boot chafing.--roger begins iii

— George Saunders

The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both *may* be, and one *must* be, wrong. God cannot be *for* and *against* the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party - and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaption to effect His purpose. I am almost ready to say that this is probably true - that God wills this contest, and wills that it shall not end yet. By His mere great power, on the minds of the now contestants, He could have either *saved* or *destroyed* the Union without human contest. Yet the contest began, And, having begun He could give the final victory to either side any day. Yet the contest proceeds.

— Abraham Lincoln

The world did not appreciate Abraham Lincoln until he died. His great figure has been looming higher each succeeding decade. We understand Jesus better than any other generation. A great man is like a mountain, you cannot appreciate when standing at its base.

— Charles Jefferson

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

— Abraham Lincoln

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.[Lincoln's maxim and philosophy]

— Abraham Lincoln

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

— Abraham Lincoln

When Lincoln was asked if God was on the Union’s side, Lincoln’s unvarying response was that what was really important was whether they were on God’s side.

— Joe L. Wheeler

You don't get drown by falling into a river. You get to drown by remaining there. Falling accidentally and rising immediately was what distinguished Thomas Edison and Abraham Lincoln from the rest.

— Israelmore Ayivor