Quote of the Day

“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”

- Abraham Lincoln

On April 14, 1865, just days after the war's end at Appomattox, Abraham Lincoln was attending a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., with his wife Mary when he was fatally shot by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth. He is remembered as a martyr and hero of the United States and is more often ranked the greatest president in American history than any other president.