David Herbert Donald Quotes

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• The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than…
• 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. Few…
• Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript, though maybe a teleprompter…
• Here is Theodore Roosevelt with all his faults and with all his strengths—the devoted family man, the passionate game hunter, the astute politician, the frustrated…
• I love mysteries, and I read them every night before I go to bed.
• Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.
• I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt about what was going…
• The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to…
• I'm not sure Lincoln would fare well if he were a presidential candidate today.
• Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of all…
• 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 anybody…
• Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind…
• If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.
• What I thought we ought to try to do in a book like this is to focus closely on Lincoln, himself, to see what he…
• But having said all of that, that still doesn't account for a lot of the increase in popularity which stems, I think, from Lincoln's personal…
• But I have tried to go over it very carefully, not merely what the evidence is, but with psychoanalysts and psychologists, and I think we're…
• 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…

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