Fighting newspaper editors for the last word was a losing proposition.

One paper boasted that its subscription and advertising numbers proved that America did not need the social change it rival paper advocated.

Lincoln jibed that a general INVADED Canada without resistance and out-vaded it without pursuit.

Lincoln said his spiky hair had "a way of getting up in the world".

Shakespeare will not make us better and will not make us worse, but he may allow us to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves.

Whenever I read a Lincoln book, I look to see if there's anything new, and in this case there was.