Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The...
A source page for quotes linked to Harold Holzer.
“His targets had little in common, other than that they had somehow aroused his enmity.”
“Lincoln bought a German language newspaper.”
“Lincoln said his spiky hair had "a way of getting up in the world".”
“Stephen Douglas's oratory was designed for the galleries, Lincoln's for his peers”
“Horace Greeley pursues temperance to extravagance." Lord Acton”
“The Bible and newspapers, to both Lincoln and Greeley, they represented equally compelling gospel.”
“Horace Greeley's conversation inevitably becomes a speech.”
“It is a newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell. Wilbur Storey”