William Herndon Quotes

• Lincoln, answering friends who advised him to seek protection against assassination: "If they kill me the next man will be just as bad for them. In a country like this, where our habits are simple, and must be, assassination is always possible, and will come if they are determined upon it.

  William Herndon

  País, Simple, Hombres

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• Lincoln, speaking of his mother:] "God bless my mother; all that I am or ever hope to be I owe to her.

  William Herndon

  Mother, Parent, God Bless

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• No one of Lincoln's old acquaintances in this city ever heard of his conversion to Christianity by Dr. Smith or anyone else. It was never suggested nor thought of here until after his death.... I never saw him read a second of time in Dr. Smith's book on Infidelity. He threw at down upon our table - spit upon it as it were - and never opened it to my knowledge.

  William Herndon

  Book, Cities, Infidelity

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