“And Lincoln, as would be evidenced throughout his presidency, was a master of timing.” — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“Lincoln was as calm and unruffled as the summer sea in moments of the gravest peril;” — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“Abraham Lincoln would maintain that he had never been in favor “of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Obama does seem to have what both FDR and Lincoln had, which is the recognition that you have to hold back at… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
They all start competing against Lincoln as the greatest president. And the [library] building becomes the symbol, the memorial to that dream. — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“As he had done so many times before, Lincoln withstood the storm of defeat by replacing anguish over an unchangeable past with… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“One-time rival and subsequent usurper Secretary of State Seward finally settled into an assessment of Lincoln that, "His confidence and compassion increase… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare's kings to Merry England; he went with Lord Byron poetry… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“Lincoln's ability to retain his emotional balance in such difficult situations was rooted in actute self-awareness and an enormous capacity to dispel… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“Lincoln, considering a Cabinet nominee: "He is a Radical without the petulance and fretfulness of many radicals.” — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“Moreover, Lincoln possessed an uncanny understanding of his shifting moods, a profound self-awareness that enabled him to find constructive ways to alleviate… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“By privately endorsing Seward’s spirit of compromise while projecting an unyielding public image, President-elect Lincoln retained an astonishing degree of control over… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“Chase has fallen into two bad habits… . He thinks he has become indispensable to the country… . He also thinks he… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“The ambition to establish a reputation worthy of the esteem of his fellows so that his story could be told after his… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“Lincoln was “the most truly progressive man of the age, because he always moves in conjunction with propitious circumstances, not waiting to… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“If the spirited crowd expected a speech exalting recent Union victories, they were disappointed. In keeping with his lifelong tendency to consider… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Lincoln had internalized the pain of those around him-the wounded soldiers, the captured prisoners, the defeated Southerners. Little wonder that he was… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“It soon became clear, however, that Abraham Lincoln would emerge the undisputed captain of this most unusual cabinet, truly a team of… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“Discipline and keen insight had once again served Lincoln most effectively. By regulating his emotions and resisting the impulse to strike back… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“This, then, is a story of Lincoln’s political genius revealed through his extraordinary array of personal qualities that enabled him to form… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“Indeed, several months later, when Lincoln became convinced that Schofield was actually leaning toward the conservatives instead of using “his influence to… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“Tolstoy went on to observe,"This little incident proves how largely the name of Lincoln is worshipped throughout the world and how legendary… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“Lincoln replied that he was more than willing to die, but that he had “done nothing to make any human being remember… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“Lincoln understood the importance, as one delegate put it, of integrating “all the elements of the Republican party—including the impracticable, the Pharisees,… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I write about presidents. That means I write about guys - so far. I'm interested in the people closest to them, the people they… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share
What I think I've learned is that you're never going to get it all right, and you can't obsess about having a fact wrong… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share
I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share
People will love him (Theodore Roosevelt) for the enemies he has made. — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share
“This extreme treatment was among the proliferating regimens developed in response to the stunning increase in nervous disorders diagnosed around the turn of the… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share
“I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that,” — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share
“And Lincoln, as would be evidenced throughout his presidency, was a master of timing.” — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share
“After ministering each day to the hundreds of young men who had endured ghastly wounds, submitted to amputations without anesthesia, and often died without… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share
The value that I found in interviewing was for an educational experience, just to know that history itself is subjective, that you can't say,… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share
Excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered the enjoyment… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share
“All the cartoonists at heart liked him, and there was seldom or never anything bitter or really unfriendly in their portrayals of him; they… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share
I think that's still what the American Dream means: that with perseverance, with hard work, you can become something, that the classes won't prevent… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share
I shall always be grateful for this curious love of history, allowing me to spend a lifetime looking back into the past, allowing me… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share
“Simon Cameron: “I loved my brother, as only the poor and lonely can love those with whom they have toiled and struggled up the… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share
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