Quotes John George Nicolay

Activity in politics also produces eager competition and sha...

In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to u...

It is therefore not to be wondered at that Lincoln's single ...

It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gift...

It turned out in the long run that Lincoln's credit and the ...

Kentucky was yet a wild, new country. As compared with later...

Lincoln's removal from New Salem to Springfield and his entr...

Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambitio...

Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth ...

The death of Mrs. Lincoln was a serious loss to her husband ...

The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continu...

The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first br...

The Whigs, on their part, had held their first national conv...

Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during...

While Lincoln thus became a lawyer, he did not cease to rema...