LINCOLN, ABRAHAM

1. No king this man, by grace of God's intent;
   No, something better, freeman President!
   A nature, modeled on a higher plan,
   Lord of himself, an inborn gentleman!—G. H. BOKER, Our Heroic Themes
   

2. Our pastoral captain, skilled to crook
   The spear into the pruning hook,
   The simple, kindly man,
   Lincoln, American.—J. V. CHENEY, Lincoln
   

3. O Uncommon Commoner! may your name
   Forever lead like a living flame!
   Unschooled scholar! how did you learn
   The wisdom a lifetime may not earn?—E. V. COOKE, The Uncommon Commoner
   

4. Hail, Lincoln! As the swift years lengthen
   Still more majestic grows thy fame;
   The ties that bind its to thee strengthen;
   Starlike-immortal shines thy name.—M. H. DOLE, Lincoln's Birthday
   

5. His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.—EMERSON
   

6. We are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more.—J. S. GIBBONS
   

7. Lincoln had faith in time, and time has justified his faith.—BENJAMIN HARRISON
   

8. Abraham Lincoln was as just and generous to the rich and well­born as to the poor and humble—a rare thing among politicians.—JOHN HAY
   

9. In the heroic figure of Abraham Lincoln who in life and death consecrated himself to the purest ideals of the nation, the law of the "charity of brotherhood" shall ever find inspiration: "With charity toward all, with malice toward none."—CARDINAL HAYES
   

10. Another expense we didn' used to have wuz buyin' an entirely new life of Lincoln ever' month or so.—KIN HUBBARD
    

11. Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone—no ancestors, no fellows, no successors.—ROBERT INGERSOLL
    

12. Nobody ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting.—LINCOLN, Campaign Speech, 1860
    

13. The Union must live, or I shall die.—LINCOLN
    

14. My Cabinet, like Caesar's wife, must be above suspicion.—LINCOLN
    

15. I had my ambitions—yes—as every American boy worth his salt has. And I dared to dream this vision of the White House,—I, the humblest of the humble, born in a lowly pioneer's cabin in the woods of Kentucky. My dream came true, and where is its glory? Ashes and blood. I . . . have lived with aching heart through it all and envied the dead their rest on the battlefields.—LINCOLN
    

16. His grave a nation's heart shall be,
    His monument a people free!—CAROLINE A. MASON, President Lincoln's Grave
    

17. I am Ann Rutledge who sleeps beneath these weeds,
    Beloved in life of Abraham Lincoln,
    Wedded to him, not through union,
    But through separation.
    Bloom forever, O Republic,
    From the dust of my bosom.—EDGAR LEE MASTERS, Spoon River Anthology
    

18. When Abraham Lincoln was shoveled into the tombs, he forgot the copperheads and the assassin. . . in the dust, in the cool tombs.—CARL SANDBURG, Cool Tombs
    

19. O Captain! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done,
    The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won,
    The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
    While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring ;
    But O heart! heart! heart!
    O the bleeding drops of red,
    Where on the deck my Captain lies,
    Fallen cold and dead.—WALT WHITMAN, O Captain! My Captain!
    

20. This dust was once the man,
    Gentle, plain, just and resolute, under whose cautious hand,
    Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age,
    Was saved the Union of these States.—WALT WHITMAN, This Dust Was Once the Mart