In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.

Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me

If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.

Lincoln grew immeasurably as he came to think of himself as an “instrument of God’s will.

As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.

There was a touch of prairie about the fellow.
--hans vollman

Yes.
--roger bevins iii

Like stepping into a summer barn late at night.
--hans vollman

Or a musty plains office, where some bright candle still burns.
--roger bevins iii

Vast. Windswept. New. Sad.
--hans vollman

Spacious. Curious. Doom-minded. Ambitious.
--roger bevins iii

Back slightly out.
--hans vollman

Right boot chafing.
--roger bevins iii