“You almost startle me . . . felt better in my life”: Winik, April 1865, p. 220.
“Come back, boys, come back”: Helm, The True Story of Mary, Wife of Lincoln, p. 255.
“They kept sending . . . come to dinner at once”: Ibid., p. 256.
“I suppose it’s time . . . would rather stay”: Hollister, The Life of Schuyler Colfax, p. 253.
“It had been advertised . . . disappoint the people”: Col. William H. Crook; Margarita Spaulding Gerry, ed., Through Five Administrations: Reminiscences of Colonel William H. Crook (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1910), p. 67.
“even greater tyrant” . . . achieve immortality: Donald, Lincoln, p. 597.
“pulling down” . . . “building up”: AL, “Address before the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois,” Jan. 27, 1838, CW, 1:114.
“Mr. Lincoln had . . . most men instantly”: Dr. Charles Sabin Taft, quoted in The Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, Vol. 3, Manuscript Division, LC.
“Now”. . . “he belongs to the ages”: Quoted by Robert V. Bruce, “The Riddle of Death,” in Gabor S. Boritt, ed., The Lincoln Enigma: The Changing Faces of an American Icon (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), p. 144.
“as the most important subject . . . our free institutions”: AL, “To the People of Sangamon County,” March 9, 1832, CW, 1:8.
“more and more dim . . . bible shall be read”: AL, “Address before the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois,” Jan. 27, 1838, CW, 1:115.
“the unfinished work . . . perish from the earth”: AL, “Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg,” Nov. 19, 1963, [final text], CW, 7:23.
“to strive on . . . the nation’s wounds”: AL, “Second Inaugural Address,” March 4, 1865, CW, 8:333.
“in terms of which the human mind cannot improve”: Rosenman, Working with Roosevelt, p. 452.
“public opinion baths”: Helen Nicolay, Personal Traits of Abraham Lincoln (New York: Century, 1912), p. 258.
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