Michael Gerhardt on Lincoln's Mentors 

My favorite story about Lincoln was that once Lincoln was speaking at a national convention. Someone in the crowd accused him of being “two-faced.” Lincoln replied: “Nonsense! If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”

Never read much about Lincoln’s relations with Stuart and Browning. Another point: Always award that Lincoln was through and though a Kentuckian. The Radicals could not really accept that he had a deep knowledge of the border South. Of course, that made him not appreciate how different the people of the Deep South were.

Lincoln also said that Jefferson’s principles are the “definitions and axioms of a Free Society.”

I think Lincoln, in suspending Habeus Corpus suggested to do it in the “most urgent and manifest cases.”

Lincoln called Henry Clay “THE man for a crisis.”