Lincoln

Lincoln's bedroom! And you see that great bed, it looks like a cathedral.

—Onassis,Jacqueline Lee Kennedy ne¤  e Bouvier

He still had his glorious sense of words drawn from the special reservoir from which Lincoln also drew, fed by Shakespeare and thoseTudor critics who wrote the first Prayer Book of Edward VI and their Jacobean successors who translated the Bible.

—Acheson, Dean Gooderham

When Abraham Lincoln was shovelled into the tombs, he forgot the copperheads and the assassin† in the dust, in the cool tombs.

—Sandburg, Carl