I think, with the gay liberation movement has had need for heroes and heroines, and it would be rather nice to have Abraham Lincoln as your poster boy, wouldn't it? — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story. — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right.… — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
But I have tried to go over it very carefully, not merely what the evidence is, but with psychoanalysts and psychologists, and I think… — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
“Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was 272 words and he delivered it under three minutes. He labored on it for days. The "featured speaker," Edward Everett,… — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
And, finally, Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript. Though… — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of… — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
“Sumner’s mind keeping the peace abroad was connected with freeing the slaves at home. Repeatedly he tried to convince Lincoln that by issuing an… — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better… — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizing that there wasn't any military expertise, that the most… — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
I love mysteries, and I read them every night before I go to bed. — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript, though maybe a… — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
I think, with the gay liberation movement has had need for heroes and heroines, and it would be rather nice to have Abraham Lincoln… — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
