Brooks D. Simpson. "What Lincoln Said at Charleston: In Context, Part Two" https://cwcrossroads.wordpress.com/2011/02/11/what-lincoln-said-at-charleston-in-context-part-two/ (11 February 2011), Crossroads, WordPress
2010s
“Lincoln was not eloquent in the usual 19th century way, certainly not in the romantic way. He was not a man of frothing at the mouth or shaking his fist in a dramatic way. Lincoln was logic, and when he got the hook in your mouth he would pull you in no matter how much line was involved. One observer of the Lincoln-Douglas debates said that if you listened to Lincoln and Douglas for five minutes, you would go with Douglas. If you listened to them for an hour you always went with Lincoln.”
2010s, Interview with Tom Mackaman (2013)
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2000s, The Real Abraham Lincoln: A Debate (2002), The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
“After last night's debate, the reputation of Messieurs Lincoln and Douglas is secure.”
On the televised debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon (26 September 1960)
2000s, The Real Abraham Lincoln: A Debate (2002), The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Brooks D. Simpson. "Race and Slavery, North and South: Some Logical Fallacies" https://cwcrossroads.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/race-and-slavery-north-and-south-some-logical-fallacies/#comment-47560 (18 June 2011), Crossroads, WordPress
2010s
2000s, The Real Abraham Lincoln: A Debate (2002), The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
2000s, The Real Abraham Lincoln: A Debate (2002), The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
“Lincoln isn’t a man with ingrown toenails, he’s an idea.”
On reading a biography of Lincoln that “showed me the warts”
New York Times (14 September 1986)
Source: 2000s, A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War (2000), p. 228